Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which he plans to hit up for more billions. "Chernomyrdin has given no sign of having a coherent policy to stop the meltdown in Moscow," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. "A lot of the country has been living without money for years, because of the ham-fisted policies of successive Yeltsin administrations -- most of them headed by Chernomyrdin...
Three minimalist clowns expressing existential discomfort doesn't sound like a funny pitch. That's because it has the word clowns in it. But watching these three guys try to impress a casting director by head-butting a ham through a paper target, or a female audience member by singing, dancing and yelling "Look at me!" is the brainiest physical comedy in a long time. Their performance skills are Cirque du Soleil quality (one of them, Michael Dahlen, is a member of the surreal mime troupe the Blue Man Group), and even they hope to bring their slacker vaudeville...
...gods, we are cautious. We send the animals before us. The Soviets launched a dog called Laika on a Sputnik 2 space vehicle in 1957; in 1961 the Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...
Billy Watson, the man they call Opie because he looks a little like the kid from Mayberry, was drenched with sweat one day in the Mueller lunchroom, where he made himself a sandwich of white bread and vacuum-packed ham he'd brought from home. On the job since he got out of high school 15 years ago, Watson connects the aboveground portion of hydrants to the belowground portion, pushing iron logs around with the help of an overhead crane...
Greenberg is a bit of a ham, but even he had to cut off interviews about Viagra after the requests threatened to grow longer than the S&P 500. Earlier, his much larger gifts--to the United Jewish Appeal, the Widows and Orphans Fund, the New York Public Library, among others--had elicited almost no attention. Known to be a pushover for a hard-luck story, he got this idea from a newspaper. "I saw an article saying that at $10 apiece, a lot of impotent men wouldn't be able to afford it. So I said, 'Kathy [his wife...