Word: nicked
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...curse of both sixth-graders and celebrities that everyone is dying to know how far their amorous relationships have gone. In the case of P.S. 164's Rachel Marks and Nick Applebaum, we're still working the story. We do know that TOM CRUISE and PENELOPE CRUZ have got to first base, and, at least according to Cruise's publicist, Pat Kingsley, the homonymic duo have also been "on a couple of dates." "He's been separated for months now," said Kingsley, "and I think both he and Nicole [Kidman] have had enough time to get adjusted to not being...
...Resources Committee forwarded by a 26-17 vote the Administration's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and exempt oil companies for two years from paying government royalties on oil obtained under new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. Taking notes for Senate Democrats, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., called the product a $7.4 billion ''grab bag of goodies for big oil'' and an ''unprecedented assault on our resources...
That situation is starting to change. And with it, just maybe, so is TV's status as an art form. Suddenly TV's past is everywhere. The all-reruns TV Land, the offshoot of Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like...
Karen Hughes didn't like what she was hearing. Sitting in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing on the morning of June 21, she listened with pursed lips as Nick Calio, the White House legislative director, insisted that President Bush should threaten to veto the patients' bill of rights--legislation aimed at protecting people from the bureaucratic whims of profit-driven HMOs. The bill is badly flawed, Calio argued, and the V word is the only way to force Congress to make it more to Bush's liking. Hughes jumped into the fray. "Once we say veto," she replied...
...attendants used to come in and say, 'Mr. Becker, five minutes,'" says Nick Bollettieri, who coached him in 1994 and '95. "He was in his jogging clothes, didn't pay attention. 'Mr. Becker, four minutes.' He would take the clothes off, fold them piece by piece. Go into the bathroom. 'Mr. Becker, it's time.' He would come out, slowly put on his tennis clothes. 'Mr. Becker, it's time.' But he wouldn't pay attention, and no referee said a word. They were scared shitless...