Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought this luckless plug horse to sting fixers at a New York track. Trouble was, he got a second wind and placed in half his races, scuttling the scam and forcing the feds to sell...
...video games, 3-D still cameras and double-lens camcorders for people who want to make their own 3-D home videos. One enterprising California firm, 3-D TV of San Raphael, markets a $189.95 "video lunch box" that includes stereoscopic goggles, a 3- D videocassette and a plug-in adapter that permits 3-D movies from the past to be shown on today's VCRs. "Interest in 3-D has never been greater," says 3-D TV founder Michael Starks, whose offerings include Cat Women of the Moon (1953), Outlaw Territory (1953) and The Stewardesses (1969), a lame...
...talk-show circuit. She suffers some short-term memory loss, but otherwise is fully recovered. "When I look back at what the doctors said, I think, 'How wrong they were,' " she says. "What happened to me was truly miraculous." She does not blame Harry for wanting to pull the plug. "I know he loves me. I know he was never trying to do away with me." But the story does highlight the dilemma both judges and family members face. "I thought my decision was well planned, well thought out, responsible," says Cole. "It was what Jackie had asked...
...Safire impulsively set up the "kitchen debate" between Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon at the American Exhibition in Moscow. Safire's goal was not to boost Nixon but to plug the developer of the "all-American home" in which the famed face-off took place...
When communism began to self-destruct last year, TV journalists did more than just report the phenomenon -- they participated in it. The presence of foreign cameramen seemed to embolden the demonstrators. Once the Chinese authorities decided to shed blood, they literally pulled the plug on television coverage. Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu also kept the press out of his country while he slaughtered its citizens. Not until TV aired footage of his lifeless body were many Rumanians convinced that the despot had really been executed...