Word: turneritis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cornhusker faithful, Nebraska students and alumni have a reverence for athletes that does not exist at Harvard. Each day, the local newspaper chronicles the professional exploits of former Huskers like Turner Gill (CFL) and the Patriots' Irving Fryar. Students even stare in awe when current players walk into a restaurant or store...
...Chicago. When she arrived late, he had to improvise with the audience for 20 minutes. It went well, and Wilson hired him as her regular warm-up act. Hall soon moved to Los Angeles and started picking up work opening for other singers, from Robert Goulet to Tina Turner...
...1970s conduit of musical mush, the eight-track tape, which had the annoying habit of dividing songs as it switched tracks, and also seemed to be what you bought for such embarrassing works (mistakes?) as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, or anything by Andy Gibb, Bachman Turner Overdrive or Barry Manilow (yes, I admit it, I once owned this stuff; anyone who tells you they never did is lying...
While any inroads against these "boobs" (as Ted Turner calls them) may seem like cause for celebration, there is good reason not to break out the champagne...
...WORLD TODAY (CNN, debuting Oct. 16, 6 p.m. EDT). Ted Turner's 24-hour news channel made its reputation by being around when the networks weren't. But now it tackles Rather, Jennings and Brokaw on their own turf, with a new hourlong evening newscast...