Word: cooperations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon, now a candidate for mayor of Boston, considered the aw-shucks Baker "a great television event waiting to happen. He's Cooper, Ray Milland, all the great movie faces wrapped into...
Baker -- no Cooper, but a classic Yank with a long, friendly, shovel-shaped face -- begins his new assignment on Sunday with Selected Exits, a biographical tribute to Welsh author and raconteur Gwyn Thomas, starring Anthony Hopkins. Already Baker has found that the job is like sailing a ship in a very small bottle. "Most of the time you have two or 2 1/2 minutes," he says. "That's one page, double-spaced. My columns are three pages. On TV, that would be like being Hubert Humphrey -- Will this guy ever shut...
...while Clinton is being highly flexible on details, he is adamant on some basic principles. Several are echoed by the most thorough alternative plans, including one proposed last week by 22 Republican Senators and nearly identical bills likely to be introduced this week by two Democrats, Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper and Louisiana Senator John Breaux. Some amalgam of these proposals could become the principal bipartisan alternative to Clinton's plan...
...they knew exactly of whom they were speaking. "These are the ones who circle the parking lot to get a space close to the entrance. They wait in line for the down escalator, even when they're just going one floor," sniffed Steven Blair, an epidemiologist for the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas...
None of this potentially exonerating detail was fully explored in court. In what proved to be an astounding strategic misjudgment, Sirhan's chief attorney, Grant Cooper, did not challenge the prosecution's "facts." The defense relied entirely on a theory of impaired judgment, which the jury had no trouble rejecting. Sirhan's death sentence was subsequently reduced to life imprisonment, which he is serving at California State Prison in Corcoran...