Word: hallway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...send-up of talk shows, television, the entertainment world in general. Letterman refused to fawn over guests; with the help of Vegas-obsessed bandleader Paul Shaffer, he took deadpan aim at show-biz phoniness. He griped about his NBC bosses, turned stagehands into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting inventiveness was influenced by Ernie Kovacs, his man-on-the- street playfulness by Steve Allen. But Letterman seasoned them with his own sardonic, cranky, cooler-than-cool personality. For a young generation of viewers bored with television's formula and fakery, Letterman was fresh, liberating, indispensable...
...pressures and perils of working there -- he has never lost his fascination for what he calls "the machines and methods of America: mining, cattle ranching, plows, the things that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested...
...entrance hallway, pictures of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela leaned on the floor against a wall, ready to be hung. Another room had a television and a VCR. The upper level gym has a shiny wooden floor, and the building boasts skylights and big windows all around...
That was the moment when Clinton truly understood his economic plans would be dramatically rewritten in a shadowy hallway on the fourth floor of the Russell Senate Office Building, where Moynihan dwells at one end and Oklahoma's bumptious David Boren resides at the other. The round of frantic conferences began among the Finance Committee's Democrats and White House handlers. The White House designated Secretary Bentsen to ride shotgun on Moynihan. But in that meeting Bentsen was little more than a weary husk, hollowed out by frantic European junketing. Besides, there is the underlying suspicion that Bentsen is really...
...JULY 16, 1978, FARROW BEgan his day as usual, unlocking the cabinet containing the knives. Without warning, Bobby reached past him, grabbing two knives. "No, Shaw, no!" Farrow yelled. Bobby Shaw stabbed him in the chest and ran into the hallway. Farrow chased him, then collapsed and died. Shaw was subdued and badly beaten. "I saw him the next day in the hospital ward," says Ruby. "His head was so big. It was twice the size of a normal head, like a watermelon." Only last December did Shaw offer a version of what happened. It was the voices...