Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While most of the members of Harvard's softball team are entertaining thoughts about their warm spring break in Florida, their Co-Captain, Julia Fromholz, is focusing her attention on a more grandiose project these days: her thesis...
Carson's nightly rituals and idiosyncrasies have become as comforting to millions of viewers as warm wool pajamas: McMahon's booming, endlessly imitated introduction ("Heeeeeere's Johnny"); the natty golf swing that signals the end of the opening monologue; Carson's nervous tics (fiddling with his tie, drumming a pencil on the desk), which have provided grist for impressionists from Rich Little to Dana Carvey. The program has had moments of great theater, from Tiny Tim's wedding to Miss Vicki to Michael Landon's poignant last appearance to discuss his terminal cancer. But mostly the show has succeeded because...
Leno roams the Tonight show set like a kid at summer camp. After makeup at 4 p.m., he always stops by to see his guests, something Carson rarely does. At 5, still in blue jeans, he bounds onstage to warm up the audience. "People say you should only let the audience see you for the first time at the beginning of the show," he says, which is the way the more reclusive Carson does it. "But, hey, they've been sitting there for half an hour. And if you bomb with the studio audience, you die all over America...
...student of Dunster House, I am deeply offended by non-resident tutor Noel Ignatiev's letter to the Manager of Dunster House Dining Hall, Gerald Ardolino, objecting to the use of dining hall funds to purchase a toaster oven needed to warm kosher food from the new kosher table. Some of Ignatiev's statements about the toaster oven strike me as inappropriate in the context of his role as a tutor in Dunster House...
...Wall Street pawn. Of the dozen Clinton ads shown this year, the whack at Tsongas is the only one in which Clinton is barely seen and is heard not at all; an anonymous announcer does the kneecapping. Most of the other Clinton commercials mirror his candidacy -- smooth, warm, persuasive, calculated with an insider's finesse to play on the public's anger at insiders...