Word: sidekick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turns out, Capt'n Neato-Man ("All the good superhero names were taken") put the ad in the paper to find his sidekick, Horatio. "We put it in the secretarial section to throw off the commies," he confides. His mother is on the lookout for something else altogether, but Larry resists both of them; he's looking for a real job, having been fired from McDonald's ("The epitome of the American Dream!" breathe the Captain and his mother), and he's waiting for his true love to come along...
...help feeling that the history most pointedly informing Michael Collins is not that of tragic Ireland but of lightsome Hollywood, making sure that past and principles don't weigh too heavily on a biopic's audience. You can see this in the bantering palship of Collins and his faithful sidekick Harry Boland (Aidan Quinn), and in the largely antic rivalry that develops between them over the affections of pert Kitty Kiernan (Julia Roberts). It's even there in the characterization of Eamon de Valera, President of the nascent Irish Republic. He's wonderfully played by Alan Rickman as a deeply...
Pilot also comes with a cable that connects it to a PC, letting users shuttle appointments, to-do lists and addresses back and forth from Pilot to programs like Lotus Organizer and Sidekick...
Enlisted in March after Dole fired his previous pollster and top strategist, Sipple and his sidekick, Mike Murphy, spent months planning ads, testing themes with focus groups, studying ad markets, trying out ideas. They worked down the hall from Reed at a company called New Century Media, a wholly separate operation whose sole client was Dole for President. The arrangement hid a basic disagreement that would eventually cause a problem: Who was in charge of message--the admen or the campaign managers...
...plainspeaking, chart-wielding, sound-bite-spouting candidate himself telling America what's what. Also, don't expect many press conferences. Perot regards the press as his true rival. When he has something to say and wants to do it for free, he will saddle up with his suspendered sidekick, Larry King. "So, Ross, what's on your mind?" "Well, Larry...