Word: shake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you were on the stage at the signing of the peace agreement and you put your arms out for Arafat and Rabin to shake hands, did you plan to do that...
...their tiny stage, chairs put in the blueprint, then withdrawn, until finally it was agreed they all would stand to talk, sit to sign, stand again. Clinton was to act as stage manager. He would reach for the hand of Rabin at the crucial moment, turn next to shake the hand of Arafat, then step back half a pace and enfold the two in a wide and gentle extension of his arms with the expectation that the weight of history would bring their two hands together. It did. First Arafat reached out, then after what seemed like endless minutes, Rabin...
Some of last season's problems have proven harder to shake off than Caples had thought. The Crimson still needs a consistent scorer (or, more preferably, a group of scorers) to take advantage of its many opportunities in opponents' circles...
...Nervous and totally at sea, Chase tried everything, succeeded at nothing. He shot basketballs from the stage, fawned embarrassingly over guests (Goldie Hawn and Whoopi Goldberg), took pratfalls that fell flat and, in one desperate moment, boogalooed in the middle of the stage, pleading with the apathetic crowd, "Everybody, shake it!" He recycled old material shamelessly, not just from Saturday Night Live (caught in the midst of a phone call at the start of his nightly News Update) but even from The Groove Tube, the '60s comedy revue that gave him his first break (the camera lingering mercilessly...
Murdoch, who built his News Corp. empire on sensation-mongering tabloids, still loves to exert leverage and shake things up. In Britain earlier this month, critics charged that his cuts in the newsstand price of the staid London Times and the tabloid Sun were predatory moves to drive rivals out of business, which he denies. In New York City, angry employees threatened to shut down the bankrupt Post, which Murdoch owned from 1976 to 1988 and began running again last April in preparation for repurchasing it and rescuing it from collapse. The employee threat was prompted by management demands...