Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of what has been emanating from the Dole camp lately, however, appears to be a sort of smoke screen. Campaign aides have let word get around that the candidate's forthcoming economic program will feature sweeping tax cuts. That has kept Republican supply-siders quiet but exposed the candidate to some heavy hits for supposedly abandoning his 35-year devotion to budget balancing. Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska, for example, jeers that Dole is becoming a "tax-cut candy man." Such sneering is at best premature. Much of it has been based on a 14-page memo from...
...kisses like Gelsey Kirkland; her Cinema-Scope pout could belong to Soupy Sales after he's been smacked with a cherry pie. Now let's move on. There must be more to discuss in the burning media matter of Liv Tyler. Can she act? Does she possess a screen radiance? Are her new movies any good? Quick answers: hard to tell; could...
...Diana Krall strode from the wings at a recent tribute concert to saxophone great Benny Carter, the Carnegie Hall audience might have briefly wondered whether Sharon Stone had wandered onstage. Smashingly glamorous, with lavish golden hair and a smoldering glare, Krall could easily have been mistaken for a big-screen starlet. But appearances aside, the moment she launched into the opening notes of Carter's classic heartbreaker, Fresh Out of Love, it was clear that this compelling new singer has more in common with Ella Fitzgerald than with any Hollywood actress...
Growing up in a small town in the Texas Panhandle, I often saw the symbol for tornado watch in the lower right-hand corner of our TV screen in the spring. When the warnings seemed especially serious, my family would spend a few nervous hours in the dirt crawl space beneath our living room. I felt somewhat immune because of a local myth that the tremendous pressure at the oil refineries in our town of Phillips would keep tornadoes away. However, in the 1980s, after I left the area, the town was leveled; not a house was left standing...
With his baritone voice, trim physique and stylish wardrobe, Brokaw is a perfect fit for the small screen--and an easy target for print journalists...