Word: anxiously
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Stokes is marvellous as Flan, communicating both his ironic intelligence ("There was an article about it in the paper of note--theTimes," he deadpans) and his essential goodness. And Fortunato has the tempo of Ouisa's anxious monologues down pat--"Two million dollars!" she repeats, like an incantation, as she and Flan woo a potential investor...
Dear Norma, Anxious in Adams...
...including Coetsee, Mandela and Niel Barnard, the head of South Africa's intelligence service. Mandela pressed for a meeting with South Africa's President, P.W. Botha, known as the Great Crocodile for his blustery temper. An off-the-record courtesy call was finally arranged in 1989. So anxious was Barnard, the intelligence chief, about the meeting that seconds before the two men were to shake hands, he knelt down to fix Mandela's clumsily tied shoes. (Prisoners were forbidden shoelaces, and Mandela was long out of the habit of tying them...
...Anxious though Washington is, the Clinton Administration can offer only bromides. Says an official: ``This is very much an internal problem. We see neither violence nor terror as likely to restore sta- bility. There must be political dialogue.'' Before that unlikely event occurs, Algeria will continue to be a living--and murderous--hell...
...airlines or through computerized reservation systems. But dealing with the airlines could leave passengers at their mercy, with a narrow range of information. "Agents give fares and schedules for all the carriers," says Michelle Melroy Rafati of Melroy Travel in Salt Lake City, Utah. "The airlines won't be anxious to give their competitors' schedules...