Word: gumbel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holy Trinity Brompton has a standing-room-only turnout of 1,500. Oblivious to the hot, airless sanctuary, the youthful throng buzzes with an anticipation more common at a rock concert or rugby match. After the usual Scripture readings, prayers and singing, the chairs are cleared away. Curate Nicky Gumbel prays that the Holy Spirit will come upon the congregation. Soon a woman begins laughing. Others gradually join her with hearty belly laughs. A young worshipper falls to the floor, hands twitching. Another falls, then another and another. Within half an hour there are bodies everywhere as supplicants sob, shake...
...Games created as many stars as it tarnished -- notably Greg Gumbel, who did a businesslike job anchoring the coverage, and David Letterman's mother, who sent back homey reports from Lillehammer for her son's late-night talk show. Indeed, the spectacular ratings proved that CBS was doing something right. Each evening's program was crafted for maximum dramatic effect, with heroes, suspense and, almost always, an ending accompanied by The Star- Spangled Banner. Who cares if it's old news when you've got a TV movie like that...
...BRYANT GUMBEL...
Today finally beats GMA -- when Gumbel goes on vacation...
...kind of evidence that would be accepted by the New England Journal of Medicine, but it struck a nerve. Viewers tuned in to hear David Reynard, the Florida widower, tell the story of his wife's death to Larry King, Bryant Gumbel, Faith Daniels and dozens of radio talk-show hosts. Sally Atwater, the widow of late Republican political guru Lee Atwater, got half a dozen calls from reporters asking whether her husband's brain tumor was linked to his constant cellular-phone use (she could not say). "It seems like yet another technology that...