Word: holding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such sentiments led some jurors to hold out for North's acquittal on all counts. But after one member led a "strong prayer" on the twelfth and final day of deliberation, the jury voted guilty on the last of three charges to which North had virtually confessed on the witness stand. As jury member Beverly Turner explained, "He was wrong, and he knew he was wrong...
...Price Waterhouse in 1982, she looked like a shoo-in for a promotion. Of the 88 candidates -- all the others were male -- she had the best record at generating new business and securing multimillion-dollar contracts for the Big Eight accounting firm. Yet Hopkins' nomination was put on hold after she was evaluated by several male partners as being too "macho" and in need of a "charm school." One of them advised her to "walk more femininely, talk more femininely, dress more femininely, wear makeup, have her hair styled and wear jewelry." Instead she quit the firm and filed...
Certainly not all autograph seekers are innocents. A collector in England nearly kept sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner from a starting line last season. "I told him I would give him an autograph after the race," she said, "but he grabbed hold of me and wouldn't let go." Reggie Jackson often conducted debates of this kind with his public, including a beery brawl in Milwaukee that escalated when a shredded Jackson autograph got sprinkled on his french fries...
...star is hunted down and sued, then jailed and beaten after he $ refuses a fan's request for a handshake. In the title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities, in a way that seems chilling and entirely possible, when PEOPLE magazine, the morning babble shows and a congressional subcommittee hold their marriage up for universal inspection. If Kafka were writing this spooky stuff, you would call it Keilloresque, but it wouldn't be nearly so funny...
However, Cottington's refined dramatic skills and subtle comic timing hold the show together as she edges towards full-fledged paranoia...