Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reeves questioned the project's chances for success, citing what he described as its "bureaucratic" nature and criticizing it for "trying to reinvent the wheel...
...deifying him but making him look very respectable. It began to worry the hell out of me. I did not see how TIME could put this picture on the cover without conveying some kind of tacit endorsement. In December, I stumbled on a fine lithograph of a Catherine wheel with naked bodies hanging from it, and down in one corner a little man playing a hymn of hate on an organ, and the man was Hitler. By the time I found it, Harry was away, and I was running the shop. The editors of TIME fell into violent disagreement over...
...escape it all. Kids squeal as they ride high on the Ferris wheel at the Luna Park fun fair, while their parents chat and stroll. At 10 a.m., boats blaring disco music ply the filthy Tigris River; for a few hours, Iraq's youth can try to forget their current misery and fearful future as they rock to the beat...
...Czechs all they could to free themselves of the worst tyranny ever known to man. When I asked Gorbachev's former top economic adviser, Stanislav Shatalin, why Russia did not just carbon-copy all the Czech commercial and tax codes, instead of endlessly debating how to reinvent the wheel, he replied, "Because the Czechs solve their differences in a bar over a beer, while we use knives...
...ever exciting feature of game shows has been special episodes with celebrity participants. In recent years, "Jeopardy," Family Feud," and "Wheel of Fortune" have opened their games to famous actors and professional athletes. This trend is something of a takeoff on the regular appearances of second-rate stars on "Hollywood Squares" and "The $25,000 Pyramid" in the 1980s. However, possibly due to increased studio funding, the guest contestants on today's shows are certainly more credible than "Hollywood Squares" staples Jim J. Bullock, Louie Anderson, and Shadoe Stevens...