Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that she is not really as tough as she wants to be. Gable, however, who has just gone out to get some food and a toothbrush, soon returns and dominates her life once more. He has had her dress pressed and sends her to the showers while he fixes breakfast. Whereas the night before he was playing father to Ellen, he now becomes her mother as well. In a famous sequence, he teaches her how to properly dunk and eat a donut. It seems as if he is always "teaching" her something, constantly asserting his control and superiority over...
...hijacking operation. "My client looked as if he broke legs for a living," she says, and the court clerk quipped that the fellow had a shot at acquittal "only if he wears a sheet over his head." Klieman set out to polish her client's image. She ate breakfast with him in the court cafeteria, so members of the jury could spot them chatting and relaxing. In the courtroom she touched him constantly and allowed him to carry her briefcase. Coupling this effort with a thorough defense, she won an acquittal. Credibility is critical, says the once and still...
...next four years. Says Washington, 61, who was elected on April 12 with 51.8% of the vote: "It appears that some members of the city council are apparently experiencing a nervous reaction to the prospect of reform." Shortly after the election, at what was supposed to be a "unity" breakfast, Washington had confided some of his reform notions to Vrdolyak. As might have been predicted, the city's craftiest politician did not respond eagerly to the news that he would be stripped of his job as chairman of the powerful building and zoning committee and of his ceremonial post...
Thatcher's announcement last week of new elections caught even some of her closest aides by surprise. But once she had made the decision, she wasted not a moment. By breakfast time Monday, she had informed her Cabinet. Shortly after noon, she drove to Buckingham Palace to tell Queen Elizabeth II. Within the hour, the news was out: the Prime Minister had called general elections for June 9, nearly a year before her five-year term...
...energy I Lowenstein put into these and other activities was astounding. A man who drank chocolate milkshakes for breakfast as "fuel," he spent the last 30 years of his life "chasing about the globe in the service of causes." He was, as one acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing...