Word: galas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...parties that began in December 1991. While dissenters will be able to raise the issue again, a majority nonetheless provisionally set the poll date to bolster the hopes of blacks impatient for more rapid change. Afterward, African National Congress Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa rushed to a previously scheduled gala dinner to receive a Man of the Year award jointly with government negotiator Roelf Meyer. To the cheers of 400 guests, who represented all the country's races, Ramaphosa declared, "We now stand at the gateway of the democracy that so many of us have worked so hard...
Flash forward to the year 2000. Seinfeld, the NBC sitcom starring Jerry Seinfeld as one of a quartet of angst-ridden New Yorkers, is finally going off the air after 10 acclaimed seasons. For the gala final episode, Julia Louis- Dreyfus makes a return appearance as Elaine (the movie career didn't work out) and meets her successor in the cast, Melanie Mayron. In a typically Seinfeldian life-imitates-art riff, George (Jason Alexander), now head of network programming, tells Jerry his sitcom is being canceled. Kramer (Michael Richards), elected to Congress in the eighth season, finds himself involved...
Even as the gala event at Cold Spring Harbor was proceeding, news came that a collaborative group of scientists from 13 institutions had identified the gene that, when faulty, is responsible for at least some cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, the untreatable degenerative nerve disorder that crippled and eventually killed Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankee first baseman. Victims of "Lou Gehrig's disease" usually die because of fast-spreading paralysis in as little as three to five years. A small percentage of ALS sufferers, including famed British physicist Stephen Hawking, manage to survive for decades, mentally alert...
...event had the ambiance of a yard sale. Volunteers operated the scoreboard and partisanship went along with the beer--hardly what most people expect at a B-School gala...
...this multimillion-dollar partee, Big Bill Clinton -- excuse us, William Jefferson Clinton -- played the role of First Audience. TV viewers of America's Reunion on the Mall on Sunday, or of Tuesday afternoon's Salutes to Children and Youth and the evening's Presidential Gala, could doze through all the dos. Clinton couldn't and wouldn't. A pretty fair performer himself, he knew that a speaker is only as good as his listeners. So he gave the victory fist to soprano (and fellow Arkansan) Barbara Hendricks. He misted up at Goldie Hawn's tale of her dead father. Jackson...