Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem--in addition to inane questions from the crowd--was hubris; "I'm rich," Mel declared flatly at one point. Yes, he's rich and famous, but that doesn't give him license to stand in front of us without anything intelligent to say. Some of us had to enter a lottery to get tickets to see this man; we would even have settled for movie star cliches. Instead, we got a painful hour of immature jokes and empty phrases that reinforced stereotypes about airhead celebrities making it on luck and sex appeal...
...student is concerned about the confidentiality of his/her case, then the student could choose to have the hearing in front of an all-Faculty Ad Board. I sincerely hope that the Staff reverses its Judgment and tackles these issues instead of making a shallow, ill-advised and foolish stand against student representation on the Administrative Board. --Sozi Sozinho...
...beginning of the year, ROSIE O'DONNELL was a stand-up comic best known as a Madonna pal who had been in a few movies and K Mart commercials. Now she has a nice talk show, a nice book deal worth a reputed $3 million, a nice son Parker, and most of the readers of Seventeen thinking she'd be a nice President. Who better for Annie Leibovitz and the folks at Vanity Fair to turn into Glinda the good witch? It's not even her first time in the role. "When I was in the first grade I wanted...
...recantation, claiming coercion. Then the judge--who had presided over the original trial--refused to admit Smith's sworn affidavit, ruling that his original credibility was "resolved" by the first jury's belief in him. Finally, the judge declared the new eyewitnesses "unworthy of belief" and let the verdict stand...
Jesse Helms, you're grounded! That's the goal of the North Carolina PAC Mothers Against Jesse in Congress (MAJIC). The group of mostly sixtysomething mothers and grandmothers, which includes conservatives offended by Helms' stand against AIDS research and their gay children, produced a harsh TV ad to chastise him for "distortions, half-truths and intolerance." Not words Helms wants to hear. MAJIC believes he has ensured that most North Carolinians won't hear them either. Of eight stations approached by MAJIC, only three agreed to run the ad. Others begged off on "content" or said they didn't have...