Word: gumbel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise. When Bryant Gumbel tries to poke a bit of fun at her during her segments on the Today show, she blithely ignores him. If she doesn't take cake decorating seriously, who will? Dominique Browning, editor in chief of the relaunched House & Garden, due to debut this fall, says Martha's dominance derives from...
...hill in Croatia, editors at the Wall Street Journal showed what steely stuff they were made of by calling the trip a junket. Having criticized Brown in life, they weren't going to let a thing like dying in the line of duty slow them down. Then came Bryant Gumbel, criticizing Republicans for extending insufficient sympathy to the family, which opened the floodgates to comparative condolences. Was Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour's four-line press release equivalent to then Democratic Party head Ron Brown's flying the flag at half staff over party headquarters and attending services when...
...Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest of the week...
...wrenching transition, from space to spacey. The Today show devoted much of its program one morning to the successful rendezvous of the shuttle Discovery with the Russian space station Mir, including a live interview by co-hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric with the elated American crew aboard the orbiting Discovery...
Things got a little frosty in the usually frothy world of morning TV last week when BRYANT GUMBEL and OLIVER NORTH exchanged unflattering opinions of each other's work. When the Today show co-host charged that North "denounced" all the liberal guests he invited to be on his Washington radio show, North snapped, "You know, Bryant, I don't think anybody ought to take themselves as seriously as you do every morning. I don't take myself that seriously." Shot back Gumbel: "Oh, clearly not. Perhaps the oath should have been taken a little more seriously before lying...