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...series. Then, after she and he had grabbed five years of scandal-sheet headlines as a white-trash version of Taylor and Burton, Roseanne had filed for divorce, badmouthing Arnold as a no-talent wife beater, a charge he denied. And thanks to the successive failure of two dud TV sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show and Tom, he had dropped to Tinseltown's F list. He might have had a better chance of getting a waiter's job at Spago than snaring a reservation there for brunch...
...Shoot in the air," one yelled, and the stone walls reverberated with the report of gunfire. Another policeman ripped a grenade from his shirt and threw it toward the crowd. It rolled to the gate and stopped, a dud. At the sound of the shots, two Special Forces A-Teams that were arriving to occupy the town took up battle positions and prepared to attack. Looking up from the floor where we were crouched, I could see the first soldiers readying their guns. Given the firepower of the two A-Teams, in a minute there would not be much left...
...moon. Despite scientists' sober warnings that the Great Comet Crash of 1994 might be an uneventful dud, the first chunk plowed into Jupiter's atmosphere with the force of perhaps 10 million hydrogen bombs, lofting a mushroom cloud of hot gas nearly 1,000 miles out into space and leaving a dark scar on the planet's familiar, brightly colored clouds. The assembled astronomers looked at the video screen for a second in silent disbelief -- then began cheering and toasting one another with swigs from champagne bottles. Said Hammel: "This is the kind of stuff I've been dreaming about...
Finals are a ratings dud -- a post-Michael nightmare come true
...Yabba Dabba Dud" -- New York Daily News...