Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...status ladder of network news, anchoring a morning newscast has long been a sign that you haven't quite made it to the top rung of superstardom. Today co-anchor Katie Couric, one of NBC's biggest stars despite the fact that she has to appear in full makeup at 7 a.m., has gone a long way toward disproving that accepted wisdom. Still, early-morning duty is widely regarded as a stepping stone to the really plum jobs on the evening news or one of the prime-time newsmagazines...
Part of the answer lies in the makeup and background of Starr's handpicked team. Though Starr prides himself on having created a "microcosm" of the Justice Department, "but perhaps more elaborately fine tuned," true legal diversity eluded him. He had tough prosecutors and brilliant litigators recruited from around the country, but his Lewinsky team had few lawyers with strong criminal-defense backgrounds to provide balance, help plot the next move or weigh in on the treatment of witnesses. "Government lawyers have never had to sit in a room with somebody who is completely innocent," says a former Starr assistant...
...makeup of the class of 2003 thus far is 6 percent Hispanic, 6 percent black, and 20 percent Asian American...
...pods are designed to shatter on impact, releasing a pair of 7-in. probes. Slamming into the surface, the probes are supposed to drive themselves 4 ft. into the Martian crust. Once buried, they will deploy tiny drills and begin sampling the chemical makeup of the soil around them. Scientists believe that chemistry could be remarkably rich. "The surface of Mars has been pretty well sterilized by ultraviolet radiation," says Sam Thurman, the mission's flight-operations manager. The subsurface has been spared that scrubbing...
Phoebe Search '00 appears on stage in the first sketch called '15 Minutes." She is an actress putting on her makeup in the mirror--"getting ready," she says sarcastically, "for an evening of 'lacerating self exposure."' When she orders the house lights to come up and inspects the audience, she is not talking at us, but with us (as the play's title promises us she should). This first sketch is crucial; it reveals the intrinsic theatricality of the play. Jessica Shapiro '01 plays the show's second actress--a demented twenty-something with a plan to kill...