Word: playfully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspects, says they were made fun of and that they vowed to shoot anyone who got in their way during the rampage. Yet Jedd's mother Debra recalls that when the suspects visited, they were well-mannered kids who liked to listen to the rock group Korn and play video games. "If I didn't think they were good kids, they wouldn't have been allowed in my home," she says...
...hygienic Donald to keep his sanity in an election year's orgies of grip-and-grin? Mingling with the unwashed, he will presumably shake tens of thousands of germy hands. The most graceful substitute--the Hindu namaste (slight bow, hands clasped near the heart as in prayer)--would not play well in American politics. One alternative might be to shake your own hand, brandishing the two-handed clutch in front of your face like a champ while looking the voter in the eye. No. Too much self-congratulation. A politician mustn't advertise his narcissism...
...friend of mine asked if I wanted to play cricket," says Steve Aranda, 19, a hard-core gang member at the time. "I got a dictionary to look up what it was." Aranda, who once watched a gunned-down friend die in his arms, says the punks tease him about this sissy cricket thing. "But this will take me places they'll never go." Former gang member Robert Saxton, 16, thinks of it as switching crews. "This is my gang now," says Saxton, shagging balls at practice...
They've also learned how to beat the Brits at their own game. After a slow start, the Homies & Popz rally. "That's what I'm talking about!" Hayes cheers after a good play. "Sport of kings! Thinking man's game!" Steve Castaneda, 18, bowls four wickets--"He practices in his backyard with lemons," Haber says--as the chaps from the 'hood sink the Mayflower, 121-84. And the chorus of their celebratory rap goes like this...
...Sports anchor Keith Olbermann, busy with baseball play-off duties, turned down the job as host of the show. Fox also looked at several comics and TV emcees. Roughly two weeks before the scheduled premiere, experienced daytime host Chuck Woolery (Love Connection, Wheel of Fortune, etc.) signed on. He says joining a new show so close to liftoff doesn't bother him. "I've been doing this a long time. I can evaluate a show and see if it's worth doing when I first look...