Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Good Lord, I want to grab this kid and shake him, mess up his hair, maybe get him to take up cussing. He admits, in the course of 90 minutes of insufferable evenhandedness, that the pressure, obligations and spotlight are overwhelming. "But if you had said, 'Hey, you're never going to have a personal life; you're constantly going to be traveling...talking to sponsors and signing autographs every day for the rest of your career,' I think I'd still say, 'O.K., I'll take...
What causes the epidemic of imitation? "You need a cat to do the copying," says Harvard psychologist William Pollack. "It starts with kids who are already somewhere close to the edge." Copycats model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah...
...perhaps appropriate that the Latin female singer who is best positioned to grab hold of a Selena-proportioned success is the woman who portrayed her on film. Gregory Nava, director of the 1997 biopic Selena, cast Jennifer Lopez in the lead. The finished film used Selena's real voice for the musical sequences, but, Nava says, Lopez would sing through her scenes during the filming. The experience inspired Lopez to launch a singing career. "I did a demo in Spanish after Selena and submitted it to the Work label," says Lopez. "They said, 'We like it, but we want...
...Department. And STUART EIZENSTAT is happy. He's been promoted from his job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to be Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have Eizenstat...
...Department. And Stuart Eizenstat is happy. He's been promoted from his job as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs to be Summers' deputy. The only one unhappy is Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. She lured the Washington-savvy Eizenstat from the Commerce Department two years ago to grab back some control of international economic policy, which the State Department had ceded to other agencies. Since then, State and Treasury have fought a turf war behind the scenes over control of Washington's response to the Asian financial crisis and Russia's economic bailout. Summers will now have Eizenstat...