Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skipped one class totally. I just sat around," he says. "I realized I just wasn't having fun. I couldn't drag myself out of bed until three in the afternoon...
...afternoon picks up for Wang when she and Mike hold a meeting with their main "contact" in the client's product engineering department. This meeting gives me a view of the working relationship between client and consultant that I haven't had all day. Even though some important issues are being discussed, the atmosphere is very informal and relaxed; the client contact seems to trust Mike and Wang to be on his team. The meeting wanders from a demonstration of a nifty PowerPoint presentation tool (a hallmark of consulting) to a discussion of engineering challenges (in which both Wang...
...course, despite the popularity of the straight-to-startup route, investment banks are still deluged with applications from eager college seniors. Analysts spend several hours a week interviewing and reading resumes, mostly from their own schools. Today Shemmer spends three hours in the late afternoon interviewing candidates--this week it's Yale...
...unutterably dull civil servant (Stephen Rea) who enters into a dalliance with an intense, emotionally greedy novelist named Maurice Bendrix (a fiercely glowering Ralph Fiennes). Set in wartime London and the grayish postwar years, it is, to borrow Greene's favorite word, a routinely "seedy" coupling. Until the afternoon when, taking a break from their lovemaking, Maurice steps out of the room and a buzz bomb strikes. She thinks he's dead, drops to her knees and prays: if God will spare him, she will give him up. Whereupon Maurice returns to the bedroom, stunned but intact...
...Farrell still looks perfectly capable of donning tutu and toe shoes and filling in for any of the women in her 16-member company. But she doesn't need to, and that's the point. Her versions of such classics as George Balanchine's Apollo and Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, danced by a troupe of near youngsters and up-and-comers, glisten and gleam as though the choreographers had personally stopped backstage to apply one last coat of polish...