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...Cindy knew every slope in Europe, says McKinney. "Her absence has hit us all pretty hard." The team's usual manner is joking and sometimes even throwing confetti. "The Europeans used to laugh at our crazy spirit," Cooper says, "but now that we've started winning, it drives them up a wall...
...outset of last week's televised debate among eight Democratic presidential candidates, Ted Koppel smiled into the camera and said, "The moderator will try to have complete control." That drew a laugh, but as usual, he was in earnest. Indeed, during the half of the debate that he moderated, Koppel, cool and cerebral, kept the discussion crisply controlled-and confirmed his reputation as perhaps the best serious interviewer on American...
...almost as rehabilitated as their pupils, gave new American art its pedigree. At one point Gérôme had 90 American students. As an American critic remarked in 1864, "We have not time to invent and study everything anew. The fast-flying 19th century would laugh us to scorn should we attempt it. No one dreams of it in science, ethics or physics. Why then propose it in art?" It may be that even the most "American" of Eakins' paintings-his rowing scenes on the Schuylkill River, so astute in their blending of lyrical responses with...
...picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good." To which Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz cracked, "Imagine-the whole world wired to Harry Conn's ass!" Oddly enough, Cohn deserves the last laugh; more than a few current films could benefit from his circuitry. On the whole, today's movies are longer but not richer. Their story lines are no more complicated, their characters no more complex, their visual style no more elegant, their dialogue no more reverberant. They have renounced briskness...
...behind the madness, Producer Lome Michaels, concluded that the show had dwindled into an institution. Michaels took a three-year hiatus from the pressures of weekly television, which had been his passion ever since he moved south from Canada to hatch gags for Rowan & Martin's Laugh...