Dec 18th, 2008 · President Bush's quick reflexes spared him getting hit by a shoe hurled at him in Baghdad. But shoe throwers around the world can take their turn at the president's likeness. In a new online game called Sock and Awe, players aim a brown topsider at a ducking President Bush. It's much like a carnival game with a moving target, with the President's face popping up from behind a wide podium. Players earn a point for every shoe that makes a direct hit.
Keywords: President Bush · world · president · shoe · Baghdad · players · online · carnival · throwers · podium · topsider
Oct 19th, 2008 · Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" Saturday and played along as comedienne Tina Fey impersonated the Alaska governor again.
Keywords: presidential · candidate · vice · Alaska · governors · Night Live · NBC · SNL · impersonation · comedienne · Tina Fey · podium
Aug 15th, 2008 · U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps continues his quest for a record seven gold medals in a single Olympics, winning the 200-meter individual medley. And Americans Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson take gold and silver in the women's all-around gymnastics competition.
Keywords: Competition · Americans · gold · swimmer · olympic · podium · Michael Phelps · gymnast · medley · Shawn Johnson · Americans Nastia Liukin
Aug 7th, 2008 · As medal-winners step up to the podium in this year's Summer Olympics, commentator Miles Hoffman says, we're bound to hear quite a few national anthems, some of which come equipped with bad poetry and stilted music.
Keywords: national · winners · music · Poetry · Miles Hoffman · ballads · anthems · olympic · podium · Summer Olympics · stilts
Mar 31st, 2008 · San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Michela Alioto-Pier is vowing to sue the city unless it builds a wheelchair ramp to enable her to reach the board chamber's main podium. The city says the cost, estimated to top $1 million, is prohibitive.
Keywords: city · San · wheelchair · chamber · Francisco · podium · Michela Alioto Pier
Sep 14th, 2007 · Legendary tenor Placido Domingo takes to the podium, to conduct Puccini's Madame Butterfly, in a Washington National Opera production starring soprano Xiu Wei Sun as Cio-Cio-San.
Keywords: products · soprano · Butterfly · Washington National Opera · tenor · podium · Placido Domingo · Madame · Puccini · Madame Butterfly · Xiu Wei Sun · Cio Cio San
Jun 7th, 2007 · Cyrus Leddy and Gavin Castleton's Grace Land shocks and amuses listeners by giving a blue-collar eccentric not only a podium but an entire orchestra to punctuate his rolling narrative.
Keywords: orchestras · eccentric · podium · Gavin · Castleton · Cyrus · Leddy · Cyrus Leddy · Gavin Castleton · Grace Land · punctuate
Feb 22nd, 2007 · May I have the envelope please? The ballots have been counted in our Fake Oscar Speech Writing Contest. But picking just one winner seemed as churlish as Judi Dench's character in Notes on a Scandal. So we have lots. And the Oscar goes to...
Keywords: scandal · winners · Oscar · Envelope · podium · Judi Dench · churlish
