Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, last week was full of flying ferment. At American Airlines, pilots and management resumed their long-running hatefest, with the former staging a sick-out that stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers. In Washington, complaints about airline service--crowding, high prices, late flights--are stacking up so fast that Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona introduced legislation for a passenger bill of rights...
NAME: WARREN ("I'M NOT NED") BEATTY OCCUPATION: Actor, former womanizer BEST PUNCH: Calls Bart "nasty" and says his reporting can be "wildly inaccurate...but because he's the editor of Variety, no one ever calls him to task for his sloppy research...
...headphones who periodically erupts in cackling laughter. But I couldn't help myself: you try keeping quiet while listening to Al Franken reading from his book Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot. Especially the introduction, in which Franken describes ex-U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick as "my former lover...
...firing-on-Fort-Sumter of this little war came when Christopher Hitchens, a lefty Brit who writes for Vanity Fair and the Nation, signed an affidavit against his old friend Sidney Blumenthal, a presidential aide and former political writer who has worked for the New Yorker and the New Republic. Hitchens told congressional investigators that Blumenthal, who left journalism two years ago for the White House, had called Monica Lewinsky a "stalker" at a social lunch last March. It could be a big deal if it helps prove Blumenthal lied under oath when he told impeachment investigators he didn...
...Internet is changing the way musicians sell their work and, in doing so, broadening the range of music that consumers get to hear. Says Al Teller, former CEO of MCA Music Group who now heads Atomic Pop, a new company that will sell downloadable music on the Web: "What the Web offers is an opportunity for the artist to go directly to the consumer." Musicians and entrepreneurs are exploring new ways of putting the technology to use. DJ Spooky recently featured his music on a deejay website that encouraged users to remix his work and e-mail the new creations...