Word: lineup
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...told TIME.com. "We?ve been forced to ration the books, because the existing copies won?t meet the demand or fill our advance orders." The publishing house, which, like many of its competitors, has worked with Chinese manufacturers for ten years without incident, had planned a major fall lineup to mark its entr?e into the world of full-service publishing. Unfortunately, Chinese customs officials have also indefinitely halted production of two other Callaway titles, "Celestial Gallery," a book of Himalayan art, which, according to Callaway, raises spiritual objections from Chinese officials, and "Max: The Photographs of Max Vadukul," which chronicles...
...delivering a singsongy speech with all the oratorical music of a Boeing jet engine. Sure there would be Bill, requiring the Jaws of Life to pry his fingernails from the podium. But my hopes for truly fine TV were dashed once Loretta Sanchez took herself out of the speaker lineup, thus eliminating any chance that she'd tear into Al Gore's bad-Spanish-speaking ass for hypocritically scotching her Hispanic fund-raiser at the Playboy mansion. (Let's not forget that Hugh Hefner helped give Jimmy Carter the presidency by publishing his "lust in my heart" interview...
...Alas, Sanchez said the hoo-hah at Hef's had drawn "too much attention" to her; viewers, perhaps, by now believed that she would actually herself strip nude - but tastefully! - at the podium. Nonetheless, the Democrats trotted out its otherwise unbroken lineup of female congresspeople, and it's testament to the enduring sway over the party of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court appointment power that none of them raised a peep about being segregated in one block like some "Babes of the Senate" spread in the August issue...
...many of the companies regulated by the committees. Both lawmakers drew on their personal traditions. Tauzin threw a mini Mardi Gras featuring Cajun cuisine, flashy beads and the New Orleans sound of the Neville Family Celebration. Oxley reached back to his love of early rock 'n' roll with a lineup that included Chubby Checker and Frankie Avalon at the site of the old American Bandstand show, where his wife used to dance as a Philadelphia bobby-soxer. The immemorial Dick Clark emceed...
...this hip-hop trio released an album entitled De La Soul Is Dead; its bright new CD proves that the announcement was premature. Art Official Intelligence has an impressively eclectic lineup of guests, including Busta Rhymes, Chaka Khan and members of the Beastie Boys (Mike D and Ad Rock). De La Soul's songs, like the warm, stuttery Set the Mood, lack the vulgar, low-riding punch of gangsta rap, but they find strength in invention...