Word: pokey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Happily, NBC's tab "Dateline" resisted the maudlin nightgeist, and accentuated the political in a jail-house interview with Whitewater convict Susan McDougal. Ken Starr sent her to the pokey, she claimed, "because I refused to lie for him." Another bombshell: McDougal's husband Jim came to her from Starr with an offer of freedom if she'd testify to having an affair with Clinton, she maintains. "Bill would never tell anyone to lie," she insisted,wide-eyed. And then the crowd-pleasers: "I know this is bad for the country...Kenneth Starr has become Jerry Springer...It's time...
Actually, the film cost a thrifty $50 million; the $2.7 billion is for the startup of the multimedia company that Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen created in 1994. But since DreamWorks has been on the pokey side delivering boffo product from its TV and music divisions, the release of The Peacemaker has sparked anxious anticipation. Shouldn't the studio's first film, like the opening bars of a symphony, make a statement about the outfit's ambitions...
...look like a reformer sweeping the place clean when he's the one who presided over the mess in the first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges, was succinct: "They'll try to get rid of me -- a knife in the back and that...
JAMES MCDOUGAL Bill's ex-buddy gets reduced pokey time for singing to Starr's Whitewater inquiry. Done deal...
...Cambridge, you will not find the 1990s equivalent of Hokey-Pokey--the cheap ice cream sold by street vendors until the 1920's at a penny a lump. The trend among Harvard Square vendors is to offer more expensive, home-made, gourmet ice creams...