Word: walls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sources: Agence France Presse, Wall Street Journal, Newsday, Encyclopedia Americana, Scripps Howard News Service...
While the 1996 Act did touch off this buyout binge, it also allowed other competitors, including cable-TV firms, to enter the business. And on Wall Street, the big phone mergers are now regarded with skepticism (and some concern that Washington will intervene). Both GTE and Bell Atlantic stocks slipped last week. AT&T--which took a hit after announcing a merger with TCI--ticked up after the British Telecom deal...
Kids, if you want to be famous, don't try stand-up comedy. Sure, it worked for Jerry Seinfeld and Drew Carey and, at least for a while, Ellen DeGeneres, but at what cost? Traveling from town to town, standing in front of a brick wall, yelling like a crazy person, delivering the same jokes night after night--what kind of life is that? Being a comic is being in show business only in the way that being a bowler is being in professional sports. And much like a bowler, you will have groupies, but they will look like...
...Lewinsky's besmirched dress. How were news organizations handling the sticky issue of the stain? While some were plain--ABC News, the New York Post and the Los Angeles Times used the word "semen"--others were more circumspect. "Physical evidence" was the phrase favored at NPR, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, while "bodily fluids" prevailed at CBS News. NBC News and MSNBC went with "DNA evidence," the Washington Post liked "DNA material," and the Christian Science Monitor said "forensic evidence that might suggest sexual contact." The Russian news agency ITAR-TASS was quite adroit, mentioning a "dress Lewinsky claims...
Former Monty Python member MICHAEL PALIN, host of A&E's travel series: "While filming in Novgorod once, I submitted myself to 18 straight vodkas. My system fought back. I raced to the washbasin, a monument to Soviet plumbing. It wasn't attached to the wall. Nausea hit as I staggered round, trying to keep 55 lbs. of basin from breaking both my legs...