Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Henry Cisneros, who pressed the President to get more deeply involved in the crisis beleaguering the District of Columbia. "She was a very strong advocate for the district and hammered [the President] on this thing, because she gets out in the community more than he does," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry. But when it came time to put forward a specific plan and launch a fight for it on Capitol Hill, the job fell to Budget Director Franklin Raines. Says Cisneros: "She's found a new way to get things done...
...extensions roughly coincided with Lockheed's donation of $140,000 to Democrats. A Lockheed spokesman said there was no connection between the company's contributions and the contract extensions...
Hooters didn't try to claim that femininity was essential to serving food; rather, that scantily clad waitresses are integral to its marketing. As spokesman Mike McNeil put it, "Our business is female sex appeal, and in order to have that, you've got to be a female." To twist an old saying, Hooters sells the jiggle, not the steak...
After Clinton's annual physical at Bethesda Naval Hospital, White House spokesman Mike McCurry announced the presidential ear trumpet. "It's called high-frequency audio loss, and it's a boomer malady," McCurry said. "Helicopters probably made it worse for Clinton, but loud music does it to most of us." Clinton, of course, actually had horns blowing directly at him during his years in the school band. He should have practiced safe...
...rest of the cast, free of the tensions and ambivalence of the two principal characters, do an excellent job presenting the purely comic elements with which Pygmalion abounds. Michael Bradshaw is first-class as that eloquent spokesman for "the undeserving poor," Alfred Doolittle; Eve Johnson cuts a superbly commanding matriarchal figure as the noble Mrs. Higgins; while Alice Duffy strides with majestic aplomb as Mrs. Pearce, Higgins' unflappable housekeeper...