Word: limo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth annual Kennedy Center Honors gala had the sort of black-tie, stretch-limo elegance that faintly evoked eras past, when the honorees hit their professional strides. Receiving this year's ribbon and gold-plated medallions was an illustrious quintet of long-lived achievers: Director-Writer-Producer George Abbott, 95; Actress Lillian Gish, 86; Bandleader Benny Goodman, 73; Dancer-Choreographer Gene Kelly, 70; and Conductor Eugene Ormandy, 83. Top-banana stripes went to First Trouper Ronald Reagan, 71. Warmly addressing each of the honorees, he came to Abbott, who is currently reviving his 1936 Broadway show On Your Toes...
...great tragedy, in itself, that Nemy doesn't have the worldview necessary to understand why life is unfair, or that she wouldn't know a welfare mother if she tripped over one between apartment house lobby and limo. The world is full of ignorant people. But the Times, by allowing Nemy to blather on about upper class living, makes itself party to the fascination that skews our awareness of where this nation is really headed. Nemy is only one of a growing army of journalists singing the praises of affluence on the pages on some of the nation's leading...
...feels betrayed by Sharon; she's still mad. "This has never happened before and it never will again," Barone swears. Brinkley says: "If CBS is mad, I'm happy. We'd do it again." Knowing its own program continued a half-hour longer, ABC had a limo waiting outside CBS to take Sharon to its studios four blocks away. That particular Brinkley show illustrates how eagerly foreigners play to the American audience: the show began with a P.L.O. spokesman offering up baffling evasions from Beirut, jumped to interview King Hussein by satellite in Jordan, then in Washington...
Like a karate expert, Allen sought to use the resources of the press to upend it. In a media blitz, he made the morning talk shows (a CBS limo waited outside NBC's Today show to take him on to CBS). He seemed to do best with television interviewers who knew the least about the facts. His blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that...
...photo opportunities." (Some White House photographers, however, are getting complaints from their editors, the New York Times reports, about too many unvaryingly smiling pictures of Reagan even when he is announcing budget cuts.) At a photo opportunity, the setting is always favorable to him: the President striding toward his limo, or about to talk to an important guest, generously pausing to answer a reporter's question. A wave, a smile, a one-liner: just what the networks need. The great thing about such scenes is that though Reagan may have memorized what he wants to say to a question...