Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems pretty certain he can read, but can Johnny write? Fans of Johnny Carson will find out this week when the Tonight Show's host returns to the air with monologues he has written himself. The strike by the Writers Guild has idled the staff of eight that normally produces Carson's jokes, and only reruns of the talk show have appeared since March 8. Though the strike goes on, Carson said he will write his own material because he is determined to get the show back into production and keep the rest of his employees from losing their paychecks...
...should have used the bench more," Kleinfelder said. Kleinfelder said she plans to show some depth tomorrow against the Owls...
What is most distressing about Ryan, though, is the undertone of racism which he uses to praise the Celtics and downgrade the accomplishments of the NBA's other fine (predominantly Black) athletes. Last month, as a guest of the CBS Game of the Week's halftime show, Ryan was informed that a poll of NBA players would name Michael Jordan (65 percent) as the league's MVP over Boston's own Larry Bird (19 percent). In response, Ryan used this poll as evidence for his theory that the players are "too stupid to understand" their own game. Is it Black...
...this show vividly proves, Gauguin was an artist of extraordinary powers long before he sailed to the South Seas from Marseilles in 1891. By then, most of the basic obsessions of his work were in place: he had already "found himself" in Brittany, presiding over a small colony of lesser artists like Maurice Denis and Jacob Meyer de Haan, amid the ritual dolmens and the stolid squinting peasants -- an exotic tribe with its own language and religious customs, an enclave that seemed closer to the earth than the rest of France...
...House subcommittee is pursuing a separate suspicion -- that Milken and other Drexel Burnham employees may have taken huge profits at the expense of the firm's customers. Congressional documents show that on several occasions partnerships involving Drexel Burnham employees bought up large stakes in the firm's new junk-bond issues, then sold them at a profit. At the same time, some of the firm's clients reportedly found that their access to the issues was sharply limited...