Word: texan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks she had ducked questions about her future plans -- and then there she was for millions to view, on the Phil Donahue show. Linda Ellerbee, the tart-tongued Texan beloved by night-owl viewers from her days on nbc News Overnight and by early-morning types because of her popular "T.G.I.F." feature each week on Today, had quit the network in a salary dispute. She was known to be dickering with ABC, and CBS had offered her the co-anchor slot on its perennially low-rated but soon-to-be-overhauled Morning News. Now word...
...theory was questioned when I crossed paths with a fellow Texan from Dallas. The young man said that the Texas Rangers are going to the World Series...
Reagan's predecessors were just as profoundly and regionally American, of course: Johnson the Texan, Nixon from Whittier, Calif., Carter from south Georgia. But their pasts were all shadowed, in different ways, by an obscure sense of biographical hurt. Reagan's father was an improvident alcoholic in Dixon, Ill., and yet Reagan's mythic hometown America is a glorious place. Reagan communicates a bright and triumphant American past...
Writing a book is a way for television journalists to distance themselves from the ranks of the TelePrompTered hairdos--the "twinkies," as Linda Ellerbee calls them. Ellerbee, a Texan, began her career in Houston, where her irreverent approach to office routine was not appreciated. The CBS station in New York City was delighted to have a witty, outspoken reporter on its staff, and sent her out to cover general-assignment and humaninterest stories. Eventually, she was given the chance to operate heavier machinery at NBC. She wrote for and co-anchored Weekend and NBC News Overnight, feature- journalism shows that...
...Texans may cling more tightly to the Texas myth as they sense the ground shifting under them. In many ways, the Texas myth and reality are going their separate ways. The state is gradually moving toward a service economy. For all the lore of cattle and oil, the action in Texas today is more likely to be found in medical research, in computer and space technology. "Texas society is changing profoundly in the same way that all American society is changing," says Historian Fehrenbach. "Texans are beginning to earn a living more in the fashion of other Americans." The state...