* German-style board games, or Eurogames, like The Settlers of Catan, Carson City or Puerto Rico

Specialist units can be used profitably, including commando squads, long range reconnaissance and " hunter-killer " patrols, defectors who can track or persuade their former colleagues like the Kit Carson units in Vietnam, and paramilitary style groups.

Some women, such as Marguerite Yourcenar and Mary Renault, wrote or translated works of fiction that focused on homosexual men, like some of the writings of Carson McCullers.

Described by engineer Earle Mankey as a " frighteningly accurate album " and " sort of like Eraserhead " in comparison to Wilson's lush 1960s oeuvre, the album's playful lyrics ( alternately invoking Johnny Carson, Phil Spector and adolescent interests ) and stark instrumentation ( featuring Moog bass lines and gated reverb-drenched drum patterns reflective of contemporaneous work by David Bowie and Tony Visconti ) failed to impact an audience sated on the ubiquitous Endless Summer sound.

As a youth, Murray read children's biographies of American heroes like Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, and Davy Crockett.

He once told Johnny Carson, " I enjoy being in America: it's fun, you know, because you have, you have so many things we never had in Russia — like warning shots.

) Schmidt models himself after people like Johnny Carson and Conan O ' Brien, but adds few factors and qualities to his show himself.

USO historian Julia Carson writes that this " nostalgic hour ," designed to cheer and comfort soldiers, involved " listening to music-American style " and " looking at pretty girls, like no other pretty girls in the world-American girls.

He was repeatedly turned down to appear on The Tonight Show in the 1970s and 1980s, as Johnny Carson didn't like prop comedy.

Midler told Carson in an interview that she always wanted to move like the sisters, and Patty Andrews once remembered, " When I first heard the introduction on the radio, I thought it was our old record.

" He points to groups like the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and to activists such as Rachel Carson and

For most people, the music in Nevada is probably most closely associated with the Rat Pack and lounge singers like Wayne Newton playing in Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City and other cities.

He mentioned the title while having dinner with Phil Carson, the CEO of Atlantic Records, but Carson noted that " tobographic " sounded like " topographic ".

In the general election she faced Republican Virginia Blankenbaker, a state senator and stockbroker who, like Carson, was a grandmother with liberal views on abortion and the death penalty.

The Renfro Valley Barn Dance was where Renfro Valley's musical heritage began, in 1939, and influential country music luminaries like Red Foley, Homer & Jethro, Lily May Ledford & the Original Coon Creek Girls, Martha Carson, and many others have performed as regular members of the shows there over the years.

" Ames then asked Carson if he would like to take a turn throwing, to which Carson replied: " I can't hurt him any more than you did.

He would often chide Johnny Carson for his chain-smoking, and was generally fastidious and fussy, much like his Felix Unger characterization.

Horror vacui may have also had an impact, consciously or unconsciously, on graphic design by artists like David Carson or Vaughan Oliver, and in the underground comix movement in the work of S. Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, and on later comic artists such as Mark Beyer.

The creation of Northern Ireland had been opposed both by many Unionists and all Nationalists, all of whom, like Unionist Leader Edward Carson, were opposed to the partition of the island.

Johnny Carson, former host of The Tonight Show, once introduced his sponsor on air as " With a name like Smucker's, it had better be good!

He will only let his Navy mates like " Jughead " Carson ( Dan Dailey ) and Price near him.

Although Carson might seem like a ' natural ' fit with the Gateway Cities, it is usually considered part of the South Bay.

As the two men became acquainted, Carson offered his services, as he had spent much time in the area.

Their boots also made too much noise, therefore Carson and Beale removed them and tucked them under their belts.

Carson urged Carleton to accept two resignations he was forwarding, “ as I do not wish to have any officer in my command who is not contented or willing to put up with as much inconvenience and privations for the success of the expedition as I undergo myself ”.

Carson and his 400 troopers and Indian scouts met a combined force of Kiowa, Comanche, and Plains Apache numbering as much as 1, 500 at the ruins of Adobe Walls, Texas.

The Giants ' other starting linebackers, Gary Reasons, Carl Banks, and Harry Carson, did not get as much media attention as Taylor, but both Reasons and Carson had been selected to play in the Pro Bowl, while Banks recorded 6. 5 sacks and 2 fumble recoveries.

These combined stage and Pony Express stations along the Oregon Trail and Central Route across Utah and Nevada were joined by the First Transcontinental Telegraph stations and telegraph line which followed much the same route in 1861 from Carson City, Nevada to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Carson offered his services, as he had spent much time in the area.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

Although the series did well enough to quickly force the cancellation of another Carson competitor, ABC's The Joey Bishop Show, it was unable to make much of a dent in Carson's ratings.

After arriving much too early to cross the Sierra, they camped on the Carson river in the vicinity of Dayton, to wait for the mountain snow to melt.

Ena ( Violet Carson ), who appeared in the series for 20 years between 1960 and 1980, was the caretaker of the mission hall, and spent much of her time criticising the activities of the street's other inhabitants.

Pure, released a year later, is seen by many as the band's most focused work, owing much to the strong contributions once again of Carson, Laswell, and Skopelitis.

" David Carson continues to be one of the worlds most distinctive typographic voices -- much imitated, but never matched " ( ID Mag. nyc ).

As often happened during the 1950s and early 1960s ( such as with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson or the first Super Bowl game ), Garfield Goose and Friends aired live for much of its history.

Since much of the episode took place in the darker alternate universe, Carson wanted to emphasize the effect decades of war had on the crew and the bridge.

Carson saw large numbers of Indians pouring forward to engage him in battle, a much greater force than he had expected.

In April 1972, a fellow student from the Manhattan School of Music introduced Murphy to Doc Severinsen, musical director of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ; he presented his arrangements to Severinsen, who liked them enough to have The Tonight Show Band play them live ; however, The Tonight Show moved production to Burbank, California a year later, much to Murphy's disappointment.

Carson and Morgan consider stopping her, but Judy's friend Grace ( Claire Carleton ) makes them realize that she will be much happier with her fiance in a small town than an uncertain career in Hollywood, and they step back.

Five feet tall and riding at an easily maintained weight of Carson was much in demand as a jockey up to his retirement in 1996 at the age of 54.