Word: queen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this week on CBS, stars Delta Burke as Suzanne Sugarbaker, the character she played on Designing Women. Suzanne has come to Washington to take over the congressional seat of her late husband. The show aims to update Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: the heroine is a naive ex-beauty queen from Georgia who doesn't know the difference between columnist William Safire and Sapphire, her maid, yet in her plainspoken way possesses more wisdom than the capital's sophisticates...
...addition, the financial aid system has undergone considerable change. The administration has cut 50 percent of aid allotments in order to trim Harvard's deficit. To quell the growing problem of welfare king-students and queen-students, all students receiving aid will have to take full-time jobs to justify their subsidies. Sadly, work-study jobs now belong to the past. To best stabilize Harvard's floundering economic condition, applications can no longer be need-blind...
...trumpet peals and the joy of liberation in the playful bleats of trombones. The three-hour big-band piece featured singer Cassandra Wilson, who, with her performance in Fields and the success of her transcendent album Blue Light 'Til Dawn, came into her own this year as the reigning queen of jazz...
...Queen Elizabeth, Wildcatter...
...party that night at Mark Mulvey's house, we felt like celebrities. We watched the highlights on the evening news, we beamed as people heaped praise on us and we sang Queen's "We Are The Champions...