Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely tender at times but just as often engaged in brittle clashes of ego. "If that story is typical of your previous writing," Ted wrote after David sent him some of his fiction, "then it's obvious why no one wants to publish your stuff--it's just plain bad, by anyone's standard...
...explain it this way," he continues. "When I was living in the woods, there was sort of an undertone, an underlying feeling that things were basically right with my life. That is, I might have a bad day, I might screw something up, I might break my ax handle and do something else and everything would go wrong. But...I was able to fall back on the fact that I was a free man in the mountains, surrounded by forests and wild animals and so forth...
What is the sound of one agent's influence waning? In Los Angeles it sounds like a bad week for MIKE OVITZ. The onetime superagent, who co-founded Creative Artists Agency, suffered a setback last week when the NFL rejected his proposal to bring a professional-football expansion team to L.A. Ovitz had spent years on the project and secured the cooperation of stars such as Tom Cruise to spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble...
...bottom. So we will wet cast and roll cast instead, with little weights on the line and flies that look like nymphs. Roll casting requires less arm movement. You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion. I find I'm not half bad at this, thanks wholly to Chouinard, who is as aware of the process in teaching as in everything else...
...construction disasters, which included two fires and the collapse of a scaffolding that forced the streets of Times Square to be sealed off for several weeks. None of this had anything to do with creating a green building, but it gave Four Times Square (its official name) a bad rep and a cynic's nickname: "Times Square Titanic." Some newly ensconced employees of the Conde Nast magazine empire, the building's principal tenant, even contemplated extra life insurance. Then there were the break-in glitches, such as too-cold air conditioning, balky elevators and improperly installed locks...