Word: swamp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acted and directed with such in-your-face coarseness. Candice Bergen, a two-time Emmy winner (in years when the Golden Girls were apparently snoozing), has anything but a light comic touch. Listening to her labored, overemphatic line readings is like watching someone slog through a swamp in combat boots. Faith Ford, as dippy anchorwoman Corky Sherwood-Forrest (a character married off just to create a funny name!), shrieks her way through scenes as if she were trying to be heard above a hurricane. Grant Shaud, as frenetic executive producer Miles Silverberg, needs sedation more than his character does...
...presidential election, network officials thought it a nifty publicity stunt. But when the printout appeared, an embarrassed Charles Collingwood reported that the machine couldn't make up its mind. It was not until after midnight that CBS confessed the truth: Univac had correctly predicted Dwight Eisenhower would swamp Adlai Stevenson in one of the biggest landslides in history, but nobody believed it. It is a defining moment in THE MACHINE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD, a surprisingly satisfying five-part history of the computer that starts April 6 on PBS. Crafted from old footage and fresh reportage by a team...
...question now is whether this wonder will be lost again. The temples of Angkor are deteriorating steadily as they slowly drown in a giant swamp. While preservation efforts have focused on the facades, the foundations have been eroding. New restoration proposals by countries from Japan to Poland have raised hopes that the temples will be saved, but progress is hampered by a lack of coordinated planning and by corruption in Cambodia...
...novel's many unhinged moments, a typically bizarre collection of Crews characters gather in a Florida swamp for the late-night cremation of Henry Leemer. As her father burns on the pyre, Sarah Leemer gives saccharine | assurances to her lover, Pete Butcher, the angry-young-man hero; Sarah does indeed want a "houseful of little ones." When the ashes cool, the widow Gertrude Leemer, still recovering from a double mastectomy, hefts her husband's skull like a bowling ball and muses, "The final scar makes all of us safe from the world." She credits this insight to the sinister Linga...
Tyson said he and lead defense attorney Mike Ramsey had asked for the instructed verdict Wednesday night on the grounds that prosecutors had failed to prove that Clemens hindered the arrest Jan. 19 of his brother, Gary Clemens, at the Bayou Mama's Swamp...