Word: slot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disruptive," Synoground says. One night the bar had a slot-car tournament. Tonya fought her way into the championship round, then lost the last race. "She was not a happy camper," Synoground says. The winner finally shut her up by giving her the damn prize: a Budweiser jacket. Synoground had a talk with her, and she has not returned. But she did autograph an Auto's Pub T shirt that hangs on the wall...
...movie Dead Man Walking. Cousin's cell is small and stark, with cement floors, a metal sleeping bunk and a squat, steel toilet. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day, with a one-hour break to exercise or use the telephone. Meals are pushed through a slot in the door: breakfast at 5:30 a.m., lunch at 10:30 a.m., dinner at 3:30 p.m. The air is usually heavy and hot and stirred by large fans in the hallway. The days drag like toilet paper stuck to a shoe. "Sometimes I feel like I'm just...
What's the best show to replace Seinfeld in the 9 p.m. slot on Thursday? Frasier is the most likely candidate. Along with Friends and Mad About You, it is one of NBC's strongest comedies, and it appeals to male viewers, as does Seinfeld. The Cheers spin-off followed Seinfeld when it made its debut in the fall of 1993 and actually attracted more viewers. Right now, it may not be reaching as big an audience as it could, since it goes up against ABC's Home Improvement on Tuesdays...
...This season, NBC moved 3rd Rock from Sunday nights, where it became a hit, to Wednesdays, where it has struggled going head-to-head with ABC's Drew Carey Show. There's still another scenario: moving Friends from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thursday and filling its old slot with 3rd Rock or Mad About...
Nonetheless, the Crimson is currently clinging to the third-place slot in the league, but with a three-week exam break looming in the near future, that position becomes extremely precarious...