Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pains, a world of sighs. Backers kept promising funds, then withdrawing them. Suzanne Cloutier, who played Desdemona, would act as seductress to Welles' potential patrons. "He would dress me in full costume," she recalls, "and we'd visit the King of the Berbers. I'd lie on a couch, and we'd try to convince this king to give us his army for extras...
...pointless. But the show's resurgence is causing concern at Good Morning America, where Joan Lunden and Charles Gibson offer more stable but increasingly bland competition. (CBS This Morning remains a not-quite-so-distant third in the ratings.) Weatherman Spencer Christian recently began joining them on the anchor couch, perhaps to simulate Today's "family" appeal. And when NBC ran TV ads several weeks ago touting Today's first-place finish, Gibson complained in print that the bragging was in "questionable taste." His comments made Zucker's day. "If we've got them riled about that," he says, "they...
...DENNIS MILLER SHOW (syndicated, weeknights). The former Saturday Night Live newscaster has made a surprisingly smooth transition to the talk-show couch. Miller's esoteric references (from Stephen Sondheim to Herman Melville) are sometimes too self-conscious, but he's hip, intelligent and -- a rarity on TV -- authentically curious...
...commercial, putting Madonna to shame while she sucks down a French soda and oozes, "Le Rican, me donne le bon temps" (the American gives me a good time). One of the funniest moments in the play, her chemistry with Adam is electric and of course, leads to the "casting couch...
Women lay down their gold cards at KittyKouture and snap up feline-embellished bangles,armlets, earrings, and lockets. A man asks Dorothythe Groomer for advice. His cat has ripped apartone end of his couch, and yes, he has provided ascratching post. The Groomer tells him to squirtthe cat in the face with a plant mister when itscratches, "and if that doesn't work, you can tieinflated balloons around the base of the couch;the pop will scare your kitty out of its badhabits." At the IAMS counter you can buy not justbrushes and toys but also tuna-flavored vitamins...