Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Barak was no great hit with the public either. In small settings, he could be charming and light. But in crowds he bored audiences with stiff pontifications. Commentator Larry Derfner wrote in the Jerusalem Post that Barak came across as a "potato," an impression that stuck. When the candidate finally did blurt out something sexy, it was a gaffe: he said that if he'd been born Palestinian he probably would have joined a terrorist organization...
...infield, John Gregorian, 37, and four buddies from the Chicago Board of Trade light up $8 cigars in their rented 22-ft. Tioga Flyer. And Randy Holmes, 41, an ironworker from Orlando, Fla., climbs on top of his rickety $4,000 motor home and turns on his scanner to hear the chatter between drivers and crew chiefs. Holmes saved up for two months to come to the race with his stepfather, two sons and a nephew. He doesn't know it, but 75 yds. away in a somewhat more elaborate rig, Texaco CEO Peter Bijur is getting ready to root...
...Will focus more on Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi (likely), who fights in the Clone Wars (true), featuring a light-saber duel between Kenobi clones (unconfirmed...
DIED. SHEL SILVERSTEIN, 66, children's author, playwright, Playboy cartoonist and Oscar-nominated songwriter; of a heart attack; in Key West, Fla. Silverstein, who served in the Korean War, was best known for writing and illustrating mischievous, charmingly tasteless books of poetry for children (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic)--a career he never intended, even though he sold 14 million books. His quirky poems featured a cast of rogues ranging from the unruly Dancing Pants to the unsanitary Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (who "would not take the garbage out"). He also wrote the lyrics to several...
...part of the 441 groups and 447 cities, states, counties and towns that have made pledges. Wherever he goes, corporate moguls drool all over him (and pay dearly--upward of $50,000 per speech--for the opportunity), but it is kids who get him for free who really light him up. They get brighter, chattier, taller when he's around. As he sings along with a heartrendingly mangled rendition of America the Beautiful by students playing with instruments donated by VH-1, the unsentimental general gets misty-eyed. At Colin Powell Elementary School in Grand Prairie, Texas, the kids wanted...