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Word: vanna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervous and the good sense to be brief . . . Jesse Jackson Jr., a natural speaker and compelling presence. When Jackson says, "I may not get there, but my children will," this is what he means . . . Sandra Perlmutter, the hot-pink sidekick to Madam Secretary Dorothy Bush, became the Vanna White of the Omni during Wednesday's roll call. She had trouble with some numbers, but no one seemed to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: The Best and Brightest, the Worst and Dimmest | 8/1/1988 | See Source »

...quick-witted unflappable Harvard students will get their chance this spring to hear Vanna speak--in person...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheel of Fortune Seeks Harvard Players | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...program, which features host Pat Sajak and letter-turner and author, Vanna White, is coming to Cambridge March 17 to recruit a Harvard team to compete in the special tournament this April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheel of Fortune Seeks Harvard Players | 3/11/1988 | See Source »

...then big-shot N.Y. lawyer (Liman), etc. But before the great American celebrity machine, which marries Tiny Tim on the Carson show and deploys Itzhak Perlman on The Hollywood Squares, a little humility is in order. Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop and the Gabor sisters, are not explicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oliver North | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

Questions to Hefner ranged from her personalinvolvement with Playboy to the ethics ofpublishing semi-nude pictures of Vanna White, theletter-flipper on the popular television game showWheel of Fortune. Hefner defended the decision toprint the pictures, even though White objected andhas filed a suit against Playboy

Author: By Gordon M. Burnes, | Title: Hefner Criticizes Meese Commission | 4/8/1987 | See Source »

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