Word: giffords
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Celebrities wishing to cash in on Christmas face increasingly stiff competition in a saturated market—everyone wants a piece of the fruitcake. The days when the only original holiday special featured Kathy Lee Gifford dressed as Mrs. Claus and occasionally bursting into song with husband Frank and son Cody sporting matching light-up reindeer sweaters are a thing of the past...
...series of interlocked, chronologically jumbled fights, Kill Bill plays like a nonstop compilation of, say, Jackie Chan's best fights (pow! wow! ow!) or NFL players' most gruesome injuries (Joe Theisman! Frank Gifford! Darryl Stingley!). Yet this is no mere homicidal homage. Tarantino may make a fool of himself on Jay Leno's couch, but he is a stylist of ferocious skill and audacity. So Kill Bill both re-creates the old films--which, after all, represent some of the purest, most cinematic ingenuity ever--and expands them into a daring new dimension...
...though, the debate bounced back to ownership of the Charles—with Reeves quoting G. Pebble Gifford, a leader of the Harvard Square Defense Fund...
...retired NYPD officer and crusader against urban violence, Davis appeared not to have had time to draw or fire his own licensed holstered handgun after Askew opened fire. Police say Askew fired 14 shots; two hit Davis in the torso. A plainclothes officer assigned to Speaker Gifford Miller's security detail returned fire from the chamber floor, and hit Askew six times in the chest and arm. Askew, who was planning to run against Davis in a primary election this fall, died of his injuries...
...there ever was a community where there is a demand for books it’s going to be this one,” Gifford says. “Graduates come back and all they want to do is browse in the bookstores—it’s a special attraction...