Word: gag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Trump's heavy-handed gag order belied his sunny predictions for the Taj. But he dismisses the notion that he is at any risk. "People think I'm a gambler," he once observed. "I've never gambled in my life. To me, a gambler is someone who plays slot machines. I prefer to own slot machines. It's a very good business being the house." Unless, of course, it's a house of cards, teetering in a strong Atlantic wind...
...With a New York accent, you can say 'goodmorning', and that sounds like a gag," Cleesesaid, adding that his own accent was the "worst"imaginable for comedy...
Mostly it's bad. Though Carsey and Werner are not exactly groundbreakers, their shows have brought a less frenetic, more naturalistic style to the sitcom genre. But Grand (created by Michael Leeson, who wrote The War of the Roses) is packed with plot twists and gag lines, most of them leeringly lame. ("Desmond, have you ever been intimate when the two of you knew you weren't in love?" "I've been intimate when the three of us knew we weren't in love.") The show strives to be a wacky send-up of soap operas, but it lacks...
...move by attorneys for the Pi Eta Speakers Club came just weeks after a Massachusetts Appeals Court judge overturned a gag order which prevented the woman or her lawyers from discussing the case with the press or public...
...fight costly legal battles to protect her constitutional rights when there is no basis for the defendants to seek to violate them," the two argued. The lawyers also criticized the club for presenting some of the same newspaper clippings which were held to be an insufficient basis for the gag order...