Word: sheet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only thing standing between us and being trampled to death," said the Foreign Car Driver. "Is a sheet of plate glass and some was bucking at the front of the line...
From President and Mrs. Reagan in the U.S., a Steuben glass bowl christened 'The Crusaders'! From the village of Doughton, bless 'em all, a sheet-iron weather vane for Highgrove! From the far-off land of Tonga, a bedspread, presented by-I want to get this name right-King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV and his wife, Queen Mata'aho, and hand-knitted by the Queen herself; let's have a round of applause for them both! From the Sedgemoor district council in Somerset - how about this? - a ton of peat! A nickel-silvered...
...film The Seduction, due to be released late this year, she temporarily gives her bristling image the broom. Morgan plays a TV newscaster who catches the evil eye of a psychotic viewer with more on his mind than pillow talk. The actress certainly seems to cotton to her satin sheet role. "I'm so tired of menacing everyone," she says. "Now at last I get to be menaced." Though the part alters her wicked persona, Morgan has not grown too big for her bitches. This fall, she will return to roost on Flamingo Road...
...looking concerned toward the one in the black hat, who is holding a letter, perhaps conveying bad news. The room is a trove of bric-a-brac: a bogus Oscar inscribed to "Ed Koch, Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo...
Recalls CNN President Reese Schonfeld, 49: "When we started up and I saw that it could work, there were tears in my eyes." If Schonfeld could have predicted his balance sheet, those might have been tears of sorrow. Starting with a scant potential audience of 1.7 million and a paper-thin $25 million annual budget,* CNN soon faced operating costs close to $3 million per month during the heat of an election summer. News Director George Watson, the former head of ABC's Washington bureau, quit in frustration after two months of broadcasting; others followed. Most threatening...