Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same officials questioned whether Clinton had chosen a staff of sufficient depth and heft to meet the challenge. Before Clinton tapped a conspicuously young White House staff, party elders tried in vain to bring in more seasoned Washington hands. "This whole thing has been structured as spokes of a wheel leading into the President," said a party official. "That's O.K. when you have a strong staff, like in the campaign, but this does not look like a strong staff...
...Richardson, the gifted British actress who stars in David Leveaux's sturdy Broadway revival, figured that the play might not be terrible if Anna weren't quite so Swedish. She jettisons the immigrant inflections for a flat Minnesota accent. More helpfully, she makes Anna a fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction...
...initial 79 episodes of Star Trek, originally seen on NBC, are venerated as TV classics and are available on videocassette. A sequel series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, is in its sixth season in syndication and is seen by 20 million people each week, making it second only to Wheel of Fortune among syndicated shows. Six Star Trek movies have been made, grossing an aggregate of $500 million. There is a TV cartoon show, a theater-style attraction at the Universal Studios theme park and a legion of annual conventions of "Trekkers." A retrospective exhibit of Star Trekiana was held...
...Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve and ambiguity in TV-movie subjects and drawing beautiful interpretations from his lead actresses. As with Pfeiffer here. Her work is glamourless, subtle, heroic; her performance is a righteous heartbreaker...
...Billie Holiday was no butterfly to be broken on such a greasy wheel. As this triumphant 10-CD collection demonstrates, she still had greatness in her. She was leading a reckless life when she laid down her great Columbia sides in the 1930s and early '40s, and by the time she got to Verve, the price she was paying for her excesses was becoming more damaging. You can hear the bills coming due. In a "Jazz at the Philharmonic" session from 1945, Holiday's debut at Carnegie Hall, she follows a sexy, freewheeling Body and Soul with a heart-riving...