Word: lapping
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...kind of banter, even (especially!) when there's a sex angle, is by now routine on The View (ABC, weekdays, 11 a.m. E.T.). Now in its third year, this estrogenic round table and its five outspoken hosts have made the morning safe for spicy, topical dialogue and the occasional lap dance. In a traditionally abysmal time slot for ABC, the show has seen its ratings rise 50% from a weak start; it's been imitated by other talk shows; and it scored 12 nominations, the most of any talk show, for this week's daytime Emmys (where host-producer-founder...
...contemplating what to write for my final column, thinking back over the last four years of news covered by The Crimson, a gift topic fell into my lap in the form of the Senior Survey. In exchange for commencement tickets (a wisely-chosen barter on the part of the College), all seniors must fill out an eight-part multiple choice and free-response survey on aspects of life at Harvard. In an e-mail sent to the Class of 2000, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 directed us to a website for easy responding and pointed out that...
...capital last week for final outdoor shooting, the cast took a victory lap around town that tangled the lines between fiction and reality. They went to the White House to have their pictures taken with their real-life counterparts, stopped at the New York Times's Washington bureau, and Allison Janney, the 6-ft. actress who plays press secretary C.J. Cregg, stood on the podium to open Lockhart's midday briefing. The show even got a validating blast from Republican House leader Tom DeLay, who--while admitting he's never watched it--declared it displays "disdain for [religious] faith...
...watch and showed him how much time would pass before he would see his father. They raised the window shades and showed him the dawn sky. "He became completely enthralled in the pretty colors," said an INS official. Elian spent most of the flight sitting in Mills' lap; for a while, he even slept...
...passers-by stared quizzically, Jonathan Lefkowitz of Goshen, N.Y., sat inside a metal cage on the sidewalk outside Harvard Yard, with a pad of paper resting on his lap and a spark of anger in his eyes. A sign on the cage announced he would remain silent for 100 hours...