Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise be poisoned; this custom is reported to have been general in Rome, without the host's taking offense...
...Weird Washington Photo Club," joked the President's son nervously as Andy, Bianca and White House Photographer David Kennerly clicked away with their cameras. After cocktails on the South Balcony, Nicaraguan-born Bianca then accompanied Jack on a tour of the homestead. Though she dubbed her host "a super fellow," she was obviously just as impressed by the First Family's lifestyle. Said Bianca: "I want to be President...
Once more the Oriental theater provides a traditional counterpart. In the Kabuki theater of Japan not only is it obligatory to have a group of geza of musicians, just off stage, to simulate conventional sounds on a host of percussion instruments, but there are also special stagehands, called Kurogo, who render all manner of assistance to the actors in full view of the audience. These Kurogo are dressed and veiled in black, to indicate that we are to pretend they are invisible...
Less than six months later, Quinn was taking somewhat less than a million ($944,000 less, to be exact) for the privilege of rising at an even ungodlier 1:30 a.m. to be co-host of the CBS Morning News. Though totally innocent of television experience, Quinn had won, at age 32, a much publicized CBS talent hunt for a woman to challenge Walters' dominance of early-morning TV. As Quinn tells it in We're Going to Make You a Star (to be published next month by Simon & Schuster, $7.95), her decision to leave newspaper journalism...
Quinn and Co-Host Hughes Rudd were often not even told in advance who the day's guests would be. Frustrated and discouraged, Quinn stopped reading the books of authors she knew she had to interview and even began forgetting what she had done on the program from one day to the next. "I just didn't give a damn," she admits. "It showed...