Example sentences for: emmys

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  • The fundamental problem with the Emmys qua Emmys (aside from the fact, as I learned from the Times this morning, that the voters are volunteers, disproportionately elderly, and unemployed) is that most shows on television are series--and so the same shows and writers and actors-playing-the-same-characters get Emmys year after year.

  • This time it's the Emmys.

  • The top national story at the Washington Post is the crash of a stealth fighter at an airshow (the first Redskins game at the new stadium dominates the front page), and that accident and two others involving military aircraft are the lead at USA Today . At the New York Times the lead is the U.S.'s possible shift to endorsing a land mine ban, while at the Los Angeles Times , it's a new study about the impact of immigration on the California economy and what to do about it--on a front page dominated by a backstage picture and the accompanying headline "'3rd Rock,' 'Seinfeld' Stars Win Emmys."

  • I did watch some of the Emmys, although not as much of it as my youngest daughter, Lucy, who at 9 is as deeply and weirdly interested in celebrotainment (e.g., Emmy Awards shows, the Oscars, Entertainment Weekly ) as I was at her age.

  • The Oscars begat the Emmys, which begat the Cable Ace Awards, of which there are so many that any cable TV employee who actually attends the ceremony is entitled to leave in a snit if he or she doesn't win one.


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