Word: gunga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe you imagine the notorious antics of arch villains like Gorgeous George, the Amazing Gunga and Killer Kowalski. Hey, you've been watching too much late night t.v., and you've got wrestling all wrong...
...Naturally one is reminded of the old story about the dog chasing cars -what do they do if they catch one? Wrestle him to the ground? Drag him off to the hoosegow?" Shales ridiculed Dan Rather's histrionic foray into Afghanistan last year for 60 Minutes, dubbing him "Gunga Dan," and noting that Rather's peasant garb "made him look like an extra out of Dr. Zhivago." Some viewers still cannot tune in ABC's Good Morning America Host David Hartman without thinking of Shales' tag for him: "Mr. Potato Head." The names stick. Just...
...like a cross between one of Edward R. Murrow's World War II This ...Is London radio broadcasts and the hushed commentary from the 18th hole of the U.S. Open. Rather tried to blend in with the rebels, but Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales, who dubbed him "Gunga Dan," observed: "A $50 haircut still looks like a $50 haircut-even when mussed up a little." Rather says wryly that his haircuts, in fact, cost just...