Word: scooped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...product of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with degrees from Yale and Columbia, Porterfield spent his first two years in journalism as a reporter on the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. (His most notable scoop: meeting and marrying Stephanie Brown, one of the paper's star reporters; they have three children.) After joining TIME in 1963, his debut assignments included covering the Kennedy assassination and the Beatles' first U.S. tour. From there, Porterfield moved on to the Alaska earthquake in March 1964 -- arriving with an unlined raincoat and $100 hastily withdrawn from the wire-room cashbox...
Dessert consists of either lychees or exotic-flavored icecreams. To clear your sinuses, get a scoop of ginger. For that authentic tropical experience, get the coconut. For some actually sinful desserts, go elsewhere...
Nick Gordon's Scoop Rosenbaum was slimy yet endearing, and the interplay between the character's "A+ ambition, A- charisma, and C+ loyalty" was certainly entertaining. Decidedly lively, Gordon provided a dynamic contrast well with Efron's and Poreba's brooding characters...
...interactions with the other characters. The role of Heidi demands a juggling act between Heidi's personal problems and the many different relationships she holds with the other characters. Poreba maintained Heidi's sense of "self" while contributing to the development of others, namely Peter Patrone (Mike Efron) and Scoop Rosenbaum (Nick Gordon). Poreba's Heidi was vividly 3-dimensional. Most striking were Poreba's monologues, in which her meaningful pauses, shifting pace and fixed concentration were magnetic...
Jessica Fortunato, Lizzy Marlantes, Lacey Tucker, and Micheal Wertheim shared 13 roles between them. Fortunato played the plastic talk-show hostess of "Hello New York" memorably. Marlantes' performance as Lisa, Scoop's spunky Southern belle wife, was particularly touching as she discovers her husband's philandering ways. And Tucker was especially compelling as Becky, a realistic, naive character on the verge of feminist consciousness. While this casting furthered the intimate effect of the production, at times it was a bit confusing...