Word: fox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frankie Frisch and Pete Fox...
...time and the weather. Thanks to New York City-based Phone Programs, a pioneer in prerecorded hot lines, everything from fresh sports scores to stale Henny Youngman jokes are now no farther away than the buttons on your Touch-Tone phone. The latest offering: daily messages from Samantha Fox, Bobby Brown and other recording stars. Initially dismissed by the music industry as an offbeat stunt, the gambit may become rock 'n' roll's hottest promotional device since the video...
...issue leaped to the fore two weeks ago, when a Michigan housewife, Terry Rakolta, became an instant celebrity for her successful letter-writing campaign against the bawdy Fox network sitcom Married . . . With Children. Responding to her complaints, several major advertisers, including Kimberly- Clark and Procter & Gamble, said they would no longer run ads on the show because of its "offensive" content. The sitcom -- Fox's highest-rated show -- is in no mortal danger: ad time is sold out for the season, Fox officials say, and only one company, Tambrands, actually canceled a scheduled commercial because of Rakolta's complaints...
...Duke of Norfolk, Carl B.J. Fox gives a performance that is less animated than O'Keefe's, but his work is nonetheless convincing, particularly when he exasperatedly appeals to have More commit to the King's divorce. Jeremy C. Miller, who fills the role of the athletic and dandy young Henry VIII, has a similar tendency for cracking jokes and this humor fits the role. With a flippant bow and smile Miller turns to More and mocks: "I admire your taste in music; it happens to exactly coincide with...
Congressman Wilbur Mills, who starred with stripper Fanne Fox at the Tidal Basin in 1974, is a recent prodigal of drink. Many others preceded him. John Quincy Adams complained mightily about House Speaker Henry Clay's roaring drunks abroad in 1814, when they were there for the Treaty of Ghent, ending...