Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brien, of course, will get some time to hone his act. Airing an hour later than most of his late-night competitors, he is under less pressure to deliver a big audience. Ratings on opening night, NBC was happy to reveal, exceeded what Letterman got in the same time period a year ago. Letterman, meanwhile, is rolling along on his new CBS show, regularly beating Tonight's Jay Leno and Fox's new Chevy Chase Show (which since its premiere has slipped from second to third place...
...still missing. Cohen might have learned more about the generation--and conveyed more to his readers--if he had visited places in addition to people. A singles club in Seattle or New York, a Marine boot camp, a video arcade, MTV headquarters or a college student center may reveal something of the generational flavor in the way that individual portraits can't or don't in this case...
...Russians, on the other hand, have never pretended to happiness. So pollsters there prefer to plumb matters about which the Russians have some working knowledge -- like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving...
Newly discovered documents reveal that the father of General John Shalikashvili served in a Nazi Waffen SS unit. Shalikashvili, nominated by President Clinton to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not comment on the information; a White House spokeswoman said it was "not relevant...
...schmoozed with affiliates, had nothing but kind words for network executives and recorded dozens of on-air promos, which have run ad infinitum since mid-July -- a campaign, says Letterman, that "is now officially embarrassing even me." Some of the spots, in their snide way, seem intended to reveal a softer side of the acerbic late-night host. In one, Letterman talks about his two sisters. The older one, he says, taught him, "When you go to the bathroom, close the door"; and the younger one was "one of the smartest people that I've ever been around...