Word: libbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will fight to abolish the works of two Afro-American women writers--Jamaica Kincaid and Pulitizer-Prize winning Toni Morrison--from local public schools. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, she called Morrison "anti-family" and a "man-hater," and accused Kincaid of being a "woman's libber." West Chester school officials, who were attracted to both books partly because of the female protagonists, are embroiled in a debate over yanking the authors off school reading lists...
Garry's inability, in the first act, to articulate or finish his thoughts with anything but a "well, you know," comes back to haunt him as "Nothing On" strays farther from its course. His vague gestures and unfinished thoughts, sweetly endearing in rehearsals, mark him as a hopeless ad libber, degenerating from his tag "you know" to a helpless "who knows?" by the third act when the play no longer resembles its script. Garry's realization of his plight is the image of very actor's nightmare as, sweat pouring down his face, he stares out at the beady eyes...
...fellow network anchor. "You'll get a blank screen." (I did. "I wish I could tell you," she replied. "What is a Connie Chung story? I'm hard put to describe it. Hmmm . . . I like stories that effect change.") She is not a reliable on- the-air ad libber, either. "Let's say Dan's on a plane when a big story breaks," says Steve Friedman, the Today show executive producer who worked with Chung at NBC. "Do you put Connie out there for two hours with no script? Pretty dangerous...