Word: superstars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seriously worried about their declining audiences, they simply have to turn on CBS this Saturday at 9 p.m. That night the onetime Tiffany Network will turn over its airwaves to a bald, bearded former strip-club bouncer, whose ability to make people bleed has made him a media superstar, currently gracing the cover of ESPN The Magazine...
...Harry Reid of Nevada, is a lot more popular in his party than outsiders realize, and his chief deputies, Dick Durbin and Charles Schumer, have their own ambitions. Senators want a leader they can call at any hour with complaints - in other words they want a referee, not a superstar. "The Senate needs to work on an hourly basis, a lot of labor-intensive work, and it's a major shift when you've been operating at a certain altitude to come back and get involved in the nuts and bolts of the Senate literally 24 hours...
...planned production of Urinetown in 2006 when the school administrators decided it wasn't appropriate for kids. An Indianapolis high school production of Ragtime had to battle with local clergy, black leaders and school officials over the musical's use of racial epithets, sexual and religious references. Jesus Christ Superstar has drawn criticism from some religious groups. And when a private school in suburban Baltimore offered a unique racial twist on the casting of Big River - Huck Finn was played by a black student and the slave Jim by a white one - the licensing agency for the show balked...
There are four main story lines. One concerns a $20-million-a-movie married superstar who is secretly gay. Another involves a teenage couple who run away from home in small-town Ohio to work service-level jobs in L.A. There's also a mildly demented homeless man who finds purpose when he meets a meth-addicted runaway. And there's Esperanza, a maid who makes a love connection with her psychotically mean boss's nice, nerdy...
Japan is in mourning over the 16-year resident and superstar of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Ling Ling died overnight of heart failure and kidney malfunction. His portrait now sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part...