Word: newt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Golden. Titled Away We Go!, the half-hour songfest--a youngster's travelogue of Manhattan--originally aired on the Learning Channel and has just been released on video. The host of the musical, which is conceived for two- to eight-year-olds, is a shabby-looking puppet named Newt who takes a young boy and girl for taxi, bus and ferry rides throughout the city...
Taking His Camera and Going Home SAN DIEGO: For Ted Koppel, even the chance to rub shoulders with Newt, Bob and Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said...
...brash style has endeared him to the Newt Gingrich wing of the party. During his campaign for attorney general, Lungren chased his Democratic opponent into an elevator, shouting his demand that the two hold a debate on the spot. And at the 1992 convention, he urged Republicans not to be "shamed into silence" over the party's controversial 1988 Willie Horton ad. Said he: "This is one Republican who won't be cowed." The son of Richard Nixon's physician, he served 10 years in the House, forging ties with Gingrich, Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other conservatives...
...this week,when the 38-year-old is scheduled to deliver the convention's keynote speech. Dole's pick of the pro-choice and pro-gun-control legislator rankled his right flank, but Dole knew what he was getting: charm, energy, even some star power as a Friend of Newt's. Her talent is partly rooted in her genes: she inherited her father's Staten Island seat in a 1990 special election. Her stature was sealed when Representative Bill Paxon took the floor to propose to her, on bended knee...
Taking His Camera and Going Home SAN DIEGO: For Ted Koppel, even the chance to rub shoulders with Newt, Bob and Jack isn't worth sticking it out at the Republican convention any longer. The Nightline host is heading home, claiming that amid the puffery and made-for-TV grandstanding, there just isn't any news to cover at the GOP pow-wow. Koppel is taking most of his crew along, and says he won't bother even showing up at the Democratic Convention. "This convention is more of an infomercial than a news event," Koppel said...