Word: downey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously Szasz has never heard Pat Robertson explain how he "prayed" a hurricane away from South Florida. He has never spent time with members of the studio audience at the Morton Downey Jr. show. And Szasz probably was travelling abroad when Mike Tyson, after calling Robin Givens the "slime of the slime," announced he still loved...
...deal, which was to be partly financed through junk bonds. The takeover group said it would submit a revised bid "in the near term," but the announcement stunned investors who had come to view the United deal as the latest sure thing in the 1980s buyout binge. Said John Downey, a trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange: "The airline stocks have looked like attractive takeover targets. But with the United deal in trouble, everyone started to wonder what other deals might not go through...
Speaking at an Institute of Politics study group last night, the creator of the now-defunct "Morton Downey, Jr. Show" defended the controversial, confrontational program as a way to reach an audience that usually shows little interest in public affairs...
...show was about hacking out issues, extreme versus extreme," said Robert Pittman, adding that programs such as the Downey show are steps forward because they fill entertainment and not news slots, and therefore are providing more overall exposure to current issues...
LULU. Justine Bateman (airhead Mallory on TV's Family Ties) shifts gears to play, competently if without much shading or subtlety, the ultimate femme fatale in Frank Wedekind's expressionist classic, deftly adapted by Roger Downey, at California's Berkeley...