Word: hosted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fossel, chairman of the $57 billion Oppenheimer Funds company, said just last week that he plans to parlay his prominence in the fund world into a stint as a TV talk-show host. Mutual-fund execs as celebrities is a clear sign of the market's sky-high profile...
...vestige of the ideal-mate image that still goes strong is the Miss America pageant. To be sure, this too adjusted to modern sensibilities last year when it took a national plebiscite on whether the bathing-suit competition should be continued. (Regis Philbin was the host and arbiter; one assumes that Justice Scalia was unavailable.) No matter; the bathing suits stayed, and the pageant remains a context for the exhibition of perfection--that is, if one's view of perfection includes a woman who, upon one's return home, is pounding the piano and belting out an aria from Carmen...
...favor is the fact that she's also a tour guide. As photographers have been since the 19th century, she's a host in places below most people's equator, not just Lower Manhattan but the drag bars and sex clubs of Bangkok and Manila. All the same, some of Goldin's frontiers are well on their way to being settled. Thanks to Calvin Klein's skanky ad campaigns and the Broadway musical Rent, the same cast of dog-eared guys and Avenue B girls are everywhere. And drag? Never heard of it. Only kidding. RuPaul. Wong Foo. Switch...
TODAYTOMORROW Football at Holy Cross, 1 p.m. M. Golf at NEIGA, TBA. W. Volleyball vs. Penn, 4 p.m. W.Golf at ECAC's, TBA. Field Hockey at Providence, 1 p.m. W. Soccer at Cal. St.-San Luis Obispo W. Golf at ECAC's, TBA. (Texas-Austin host), 10 a.m. W. Tennis at ITA Team Tourn., TBA. W. Tennis at ITA Team Tourn...
Respondents included Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Boston Police Commissioner Paul F. Evans, Christopher Lydon, host of "The Connection" on WBUR-FM, Margarita Muniz, principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, Dr. Gloria White-Hammond, co-pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church and pediatrician, O'Brien and moderator Martha Minow, professor at Harvard Law School...