Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Show stalks EDtv, and it can't be shaken, as--guess what--Ed is chosen to be in the show. Ray gets jealous, Ray's girlfriend Shari (Jenna Elfman) gets the warms for Ed, instant celebrity makes Ed antsy, and the network's Mephistophelian boss (Rob Reiner) tries to shape the story line of his new star's life, almost as Ed Harris' TV mogul did for Carrey's Truman Burbank...
...appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Atomic Energy Commission, which oversaw the postwar buildup of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Von Neumann's game theory became a tool to analyze the unthinkable--global nuclear war--and led to the doctrine of "mutually assured destruction," which would shape U.S. strategy for the next two decades. Von Neumann also became an icon of the cold war. Disabled with pancreatic cancer, he stoically continued to attend AEC meetings until his death in 1957. The wheelchair-bound scientist with the Hungarian accent who mathematically analyzed doomsday is said to have been a model...
...sure exactly what bugs me about cliches. I try my best to stay away from them, but beggars can't be choosers. And really, my co-eds are otherwise doing a great job on the mag--I don't want to rock the boat here by telling everyone to shape up or ship out. But these cliches don't help anything or anyone--they're about as useless as a pocket in a pair of underpants...
Ashton Robinson talks for a living--in infomercials, at seminars and on tapes that establish him as the biggest mouth in the self-help industry. But one day, while tripping out on weed and expired cough syrup, he is visited by a shape-shifting Brazilian midget who inspires him to found his own religion. The guru turns his California pad into a temple and teaches his followers to wear Gap clothing, bungee-jump and practice Tantric sex in preparation for their own "disappearance"--nirvana in Robinson's religion. The novel is a patchwork of clever ideas that never quite settle...
...Energy from Federico Pena. Soon after, Richardson demanded that the FBI polygraph Lee. He passed, but Richardson suspended his security clearance and moved Lee out of sensitive areas. The Secretary then approved a security crackdown urged by Ed Curran, a former FBI counterespionage specialist hired the previous February to shape up Energy's counterintelligence program. About a month and a half ago, Richardson ordered Energy to polygraph Lee again--and the scientist failed. On Saturday, March 6, the New York Times broke an extensive story on the scandal, and the FBI swept in. They started questioning Lee gently on Saturday...