Word: glenn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after working unsuccessfully for nine months to acquire the likes of former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell and septuagenarian-astronaut and Ohio senator John Glenn, the committee tapped Simpson, a visiting lecturer and Eliot House resident, to deliver the June 9 address...
Easter weekend in the Mississippi town of Holly Springs. Old Cookie Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is fixin' to die--and does--while her niece Camille (Glenn Close) is staging a Salome pageant at the First Presbyterian Church. Complications, of the sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would...
Bridich also threw out Penn shortstop Glenn Ambrosius stealing as the potential winning run in the seventh and handled a one-two-three inning from senior righthander Andrew Duffell in the eighth. Duffell pitched two shutout innings, striking out two and walking two to improve...
...biggest syndicators (whose hits include ?Jeopardy!? and ?The Oprah Winfrey Show?) underscored the pressure on the so-called old media to pull itself together. The Yahoo! purchase of the Internet?s leading supplier of radio and video programs (whose hits included the web broadcast of John Glenn?s shuttle flight and the Victoria?s Secret fashion show) highlighted the new media?s effort to capitalize on its own momentum...
...DIED. GLENN SEABORG, 86, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Nobel prizewinner; in Lafayette, Calif. Seaborg began his career in the 1930s in Berkeley. He led the research team that discovered plutonium and was the first living person to have an element, seaborgium, named for him. After helping build the Bomb on the Manhattan Project, Seaborg championed the peaceful use of atomic energy...