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...mention curious about just what kind of life awaited the insta-couple. They spent last week celebrating (or having the dry heaves) on a Caribbean cruise. Did Conger change her name? Did they play shuffleboard? Have they got to second base? (Before or after they learned each other's middle name?) Unfortunately, they're not taking calls from the press--though, interestingly, they have separate rooms. "There was a whirlwind for 24 hours, and then reality set in," says Mike Darnell, Fox executive vice president of special programming. "They're taking a step back and taking it very slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Fox's Bride Idea | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge students, lawns were a bona fide trend--the wily grass endured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge students, lawns were a bona fide trend--the wily grass endured...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: The Dirt Beneath the Grass: The Yard's Elite Roots Uncovered | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...long ago, Eisner would have been one of that group. He is not, he says, "a cruise guy." This type-A landlubber didn't see himself having fun trapped on a veritable retirement community at sea, where the most extreme sport was shuffleboard. So the Magic is not your grandma's cruise ship. Like Disney's parks and animated features, it is boldly designed to appeal to every demographic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kingdom on the Sea | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...though the club is now valued at $165 million, the stock never appreciates. Money goes back into the club, and if the team is ever sold, heaven forbid, the proceeds will go to the local American Legion post. As someone wrote, that American Legion hall would have the best shuffleboard tables in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEADERS OF THE PACK | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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