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...SHRINER, television actor and director, who sent about 400 vintage harmonicas to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The instruments had belonged to his harmonica-playing father Herb Shriner...
...help interjecting a little of his own banter, swerving the conversation into odd corners. He even at times has a comedian's good timing. When one young college student describes the return on Social Security as "didley-poo," Bush interjects: "it's a financial term." Audiences love his Shriner-style quips. He says to a funeral parlor owner: "I'm not going to ask you how business is." When one speaker finishes, he throws in a self-deprecating one-liner: "Pretty darn articulate. I could use some lessons...
...Hefty and balding, looking nothing like the generically adorable Kens and Barbies of today?s news shows, Kuralt was a throwback to such early TV hosts and humorists as Dave Garroway, Will Shriner, Jimmy Dean and the young monologist Andy Griffith - but with a touch of the Hallmark poet and a zeal to bring to broadcast life an America most people didn?t know (or care) still existed. As TV zoomed into the electronic age, Kuralt stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office. TIME called his reports for the CBS Evening News ?two-minute...
...Scott Shriner, the stand-in bassist, did an excellent job performing with the three veterans. Though his lines blended perfectly into the songs, his tight shirt and muscles didn’t quite fit with the geek look of the band. Drummer Patrick Wilson started playing the wrong song once, but shrugged it off easily. Rhythm guitarist Brian Bell played a tremendous set, while Rivers Cuomo effortlessly sang his part. His brilliant lyrics touched the crowd by evoking the universal experience of being un-cool...
...more. The quintet soon came back for their encore. After playing “Buddy Holly,” one of their most famous singles from their first album, they ended the show with a grand finale of “Surf Wax America.” Cuomo and Shriner left their guitar and bass in front of the amps in a wash of feedback as the band departed, this time for good. The crowd, on the other hand, was left breathlessly staring at the empty stage, mesmerised by the superb quality of the performance, the signature =W= hanging...