Word: pressing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first press conference, PRINCE WILLIAM announced he's not at all thrilled about the publication of Shadows of a Princess, a tell-all by his late mother's ex-private secretary that brands Diana a "scheming liar." "Harry and I are both quite upset about it, that our mother's trust has been betrayed, and even now she is still being exploited." After more obligatory Diana reverence, the British press discovered that Will, 18, plans to spend part of his gap year between high school and college trekking in Chile. William even claimed he made the money for the trip...
Freeman's reaction was extraordinary. The audience shouted on and on, and she just sat on the track, overwhelmed, letting it wash over her. Everyone was crying and shouting; there were tears on Press Row. Freeman sat there and slowly took off her shoes. She felt that she was among friends, and that's what she does among friends. She sits down and takes off her shoes...
...Fort Polk, La., avoid Vietnam combat. A native of Dublin, Ireland, who dropped out of high school to study acting, Farrell had no trouble trading his Irish accent for Bozz's Texas drawl, but he's finding it hard to keep his briny tongue in check now that the press is paying attention. "The first word I said in the [Toronto] press conference was 'f___,'" recalls Farrell. He can also be found on the cover of Interview magazine in a photograph that he finds "hilarious; there I am holding an American football, and I can't even throw...
...where I witnessed a giant blond Norwegian couple making out, Brazilian basketball players scootering by and Cuban boxers hogging the snowboarding video game, I was once again reminded of how out of place I am among the athletically inclined. I was about to slink back to the fun-exempt press center when, just past the florist, I spotted three tiny 16-year-old gymnasts waiting for a manicure in what was an obviously desperate, misguided attempt to appear as if they had reached puberty. I decided to get a manicure and haircut at the Olympic Village barbershop to achieve...
This is also the story the assailant is telling the press from his cell in the Middlesex County Jail in Cambridge. And listening to the people who know the Square best, his story jibes well with other kids' experiences with obnoxious Harvard students...