Word: guested
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dallas high school jazz combo desperately improvises to kill time in an auditorium packed with local school-board members, education bureaucrats and fidgety students. The guest of honor, Lawrence Ellison, 55, is running a little late. Ellison is CEO and founder of the Oracle software company. And today at least, with his stock holdings outrunning those of Microsoft's Bill Gates, Ellison is the richest man in the world. His jet has just touched down at Love Field. So the combo plods on, trying to fill another 20 minutes...
...doesn't travel through Delhi; one doesn't stay a few months as an observant guest. Like a lentil softened in pot of steaming dal, one is forced to absorb the city's scalding brew, to let it seep under her skin and flavor her tender flesh. Mouths, nostrils become cultural portals, entry points through which the diesel fumes of a Tata bus, the bite of a roadside fried samosa and the burn of the scorching sun enter one's body and transform one's soul. Here, the ordinary becomes the extraordinary and the magnificent flows from the mundane...
...when he was a star. It suffices only to get the pair off on a cross-country odyssey aimed at thwarting the bad guys. Conducted by a naive FBI agent (Piper Perabo), they do encounter some fitfully funny comic actors (John Goodman, Jonathan Winters, Whoopi Goldberg), but neither the guest stars nor the sublimely numb Bullwinkle manages to rescue the picture from its too comfortable reliance on retro charm. It's great to have the Moose back, but it would be greater still to see him in a humorous context fully worth...
...names in the guest book at State College, Pa., reads like GOP veep-finder Dick Cheney's legal pad - Tom Ridge, Tommy Thompson, John Engler, George Pataki, Jim Gilmore, Christy Whitman. All are popular, moderate and Republican. For Gore and the Democrats, there's just one: California's Gray Davis. And he doesn't want...
...looking for someone who will nudge the guest, point to me and ask, 'Isn't Conan something,'" O'Brien told me when I offered myself as a candidate. I told him I was more interested in putting the "kick" back in sidekick, mocking him ruthlessly at every opportunity. He then tried several methods to dissuade me, including telling me the salary was $26,000 a year, demanding I have Samoan heritage and making vague sartorial threats. "You're going to have to do a lot of cross-dressing segments," he said. "Andy looked good in low-cut gowns...