Word: nail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disturbing tendency in pop culture, he is compelled to document it with suspicious statistics, to draw conspiratorial conclusions, to call for a return in spirit to the movies' puritanical Production Code of the 1930s -- all with the fervor of a modern Martin Luther, an angry evangelist determined to nail his 95 theses not on a church door but on a movie marquee. Problem is, he keeps hitting his thumb...
...League, and leading the national women's team to a 1992 world title. So when she played goalie for the Tampa Bay Lightning last week, to become the first woman player in the N.H.L., she believed a final barrier had been crossed. But not quite. "Did you break a nail?" asked a straight-faced sportswriter...
Murphy Brown, along with the stellar performance of new Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
...Democrats in Congress fought tooth and nail for an unpopular $50 tax credit Charter had proposed during the campaign. But when the credit passed the Congress, Carter withdrew his support, infuriating many members of his own party...
CLAIR GEORGE WAS BACK IN WASHington last week, after a Maine vacation where he satisfied his voracious reading habit and worked on his tennis serve. Next month he will be playing for higher stakes as federal prosecutors try to nail him for lying to Congress about the Iran-contra affair. Though the former CIA chief of clandestine operations received a respite three weeks ago when a jury could not reach a verdict on nine counts of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice, he now faces a retrial at the hands of special prosecutor Craig Gillen. Just...