Word: desks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people were helpful and honest," said Aaron M. Helsinger '95. "The person at the physics desk was not interested in selling me on physics--just in telling me what the department is like. She made me realize that maybe physics isn't the right choice...
...rituals and idiosyncrasies have become as comforting to millions of viewers as warm wool pajamas: McMahon's booming, endlessly imitated introduction ("Heeeeeere's Johnny"); the natty golf swing that signals the end of the opening monologue; Carson's nervous tics (fiddling with his tie, drumming a pencil on the desk), which have provided grist for impressionists from Rich Little to Dana Carvey. The program has had moments of great theater, from Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki to Michael Landon's poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because of its cozy...
...blue-gray ergonomic chair, with a tilt-swivel mechanism and pneumatic adjustment, vinyl arms and a star pedestal base, retails for $500. It's a fine chair. But it's just a chair, of course -- except when it sits behind the most famous Formica desk in America, the first desk in the history of the Republic to stand for something other than homework and bureaucracy. When that chair sits behind the Desk That Johnny Built, that chair, of course, is a throne...
...COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...Marine Corps, denounces Buchanan's opposition to the Persian Gulf war. "The last thing we need in the White House is an isolationist like Pat Buchanan," says Kelley. A second ad designed to boost Bush's leadership credentials shows the President sitting awkwardly on the edge of his desk reviewing papers while an announcer recites his agenda...