Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, Trent Lott sighed, "Free at last," as he embraced a week-long break from being "tethered to the floor." A normal day in a Senator's life consists of being whisked, in a warm car in winter and a cool one in summer, from one self-aggrandizing event to the next. There are photo ops with fawning constituents, visits from bootlicking lobbyists, calls to wealthy contributors, all lubricated by a solicitous staff. Senators are used to setting their own schedules, which almost never include sitting still listening to other people prattle on. They'll do the prattling, thank...
...says Tyrone Simmons, who runs a shuttle service called Operation Prison Gap and rewards Mrs. Rosado's loyalty by charging her only half the $40 fee. During the course of a week, thousands of New Yorkers visit relatives in upstate and western New York prisons. On Friday and Saturday nights, dozens of buses and vans stack up at Columbus Circle. Mrs. Rosado, who retired as a seamstress four years ago, prefers to go on a weekday and avoid the crowds...
...Friday night, early December 1998, and you're backstage at Saturday Night Live. You're hanging out in the dressing room with Lauryn Hill, who is sitting on the couch, flipping through a script. The 23-year-old rapper-singer-actress is the musical guest on this week's show. It's her coming-out party, the first live TV performance she's done since releasing her critically acclaimed and best-selling album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She might also do a little acting on the show--SNL staff members have asked her to appear in a skit...
...Friday night at Life, a dance club in lower Manhattan. Grandmaster Flash pulls the 11-p.m.-to-2-a.m. shift, and he's doing his thing. The Furious Five have long since broken up. Flash had drug problems, money problems and a court battle with his old record company, Sugar Hill, but he says today he has no ill will. He's the musical director on HBO's popular Chris Rock Show. And he's helping to develop a movie script about his life. "I was bitter a while back because I got into this for the love," says Flash...
...Expect to see Linda Tripp tell her tale on NBC's "Today" show Friday -- and then, in case you miss it, watch her again Monday, this time on CNN's "Larry King Live." Waiting in the wings is Monica Lewinsky herself, who has agreed to speak to ABC's Barbara Walters as soon as Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr grants her permission. Though nothing's been scheduled yet, don't be surprised to see various postmortems by the House managers and White House representatives. Eventually, it will all go away... until the books come out. But you don't have...