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...tell you what my speech will be about,” he says, baiting me for the punchline, “mainly because I don’t know yet.” Indeed, the fact that he will know what he’s going to say beforehand at all is something of a change for him. “I do a lot of speaking, but I never read my speeches,” he says...
WHEN YOU'RE THROWN TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER ACTOR, IS IT POSSIBLE TO KNOW BEFOREHAND IF YOU'LL HAVE CHEMISTRY...
Reports an amazed Klimkiewicz: “he always seems to know what’s happening beforehand...
...prose does appear, it is often only to insinuate her intimacy with the glitzy figures she is quoting. Chandler is a skilled reporter, but many comments appear that should never have made it onto the page at all. The fact that Hitchcock drew out each of his shots beforehand may be interesting the first time we hear it, but not the fifth. It adds nothing...
...officers whenever retail sonographers set up shop in their community. Since then, a few states, including California and Illinois, have proposed legislation banning such ultrasounds. In the meantime, says Copel, "physicians can do a fair amount to blunt the impact of these places." If provided with a blank videotape beforehand, his staff will happily pop it into the VCR and record the sonogram for posterity. Some of his colleagues will do the same with DVDs. "But we do it only when there is a medical indication to do the ultrasound," he emphasizes. And patients eager to have the full sentimental...