Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jokey new commercials for ESPN, BILL BRADLEY tries to convince some skeptical interviewers that he has the qualifications to work for the cable channel. But they simply shake their heads dubiously at his Rhodes Scholarship, Olympic gold medal, two N.B.A. championships, three books and 18 years as a U.S. Senator. Over at CBS, they're apparently not so picky. Bradley has been named a contributor for the news division. It's something of a backdoor move for the man whose first job in the 1960s was as a radio reporter for CBS in St. Louis, Missouri, and who sent back...
...Doll's House might seem an obvious war-horse for an actress looking to make her mark. But McTeer turns Nora's famous feminist self-affirmation into more than just a political tract. This is a revelatory performance, the kind that takes a familiar play, gives it a hard shake and makes us experience it anew...
Muhammad Ali, a puffy and nearly immobile promoter for a new cable channel called American Sports Classics, sat in a director's chair as a line of people trooped up, one by one, to sit next to him, shake his hand and get a Polaroid memento of the occasion. Comedy Central enlivened the floor at the cable-TV industry's national convention two weeks ago with an array of carnival games, like Skee Ball. CBS, pushing its new cable channel, Eye on People, took a more subdued approach, with a booth featuring plush blue carpeting, comfortable seating and lots...
...cold that I just couldn't shake," Hartmann says. "'Ron,' I said, 'you're a doctor. Why can't I get rid of this cold?' He looked at me, and said, 'Frank, what else is going on in your life...
...great Vince Lombardi once said, "Winning is a habit." For Harvard women's basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith, it seems that winning is a habit she can't quite shake...