Word: uprighteous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that's kind and good. So did the name Heidi until a month...
...that he or she would turn down all that? Doubtful. Those of us who scribble for a living have demonstrated that if you scratch us, you'll find a TV personality waiting, with batting eyelashes, to be discovered. For all of print's tut-tutting about TV, the most upright of us, like David Broder of the Washington Post, do it. . I do it, and most of my colleagues do it. Even lefties like the Nation's Alexander Cockburn do it. Most of us love doing it. We'll do it for nothing on C-SPAN and ^ MacNeil/Lehrer...
After a while Banks sits down behind the upright piano, opens a book of scores, and starts to play themes from "Carmen...
Like a person on a bicycle, Clinton must pedal forward in order to stay upright. And yet the terrain he is pedaling toward is full of pock marks, fox holes and blood...
...Blake Lawit, as the Duke, at times gets carried away with this eccentric portrayl. The Duke,, especially when disguised as the friar, appears several flights short of the attic, losing some of the sinister edge to his character. Sinister transformations abound in Alan Ackerman's portrait of Angelo. The upright moralist degenerates into nymphomaniac with an anguish that would evoke sympathy from the most severe judge. Breheny's wide eyed innocence at the start of the drama captures the virginal Isabella perfectly.. But her maiden- in- distress scenes later on lack the same dramatic conviction...