Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main commercial manufacturing plants at Everett and Renton. But the backlog of unfilled orders has nonetheless swelled from $11 billion at the end of 1978 to some $18 billion now. New Boeings are being wheeled out of production hangars at a rate of 28 a month, a breathless clip that is more than three times the pace of rival McDonnell Douglas. With commercial orders overflowing and the cruise contract now in hand, Boeing expects to add some 5,000 more employees in the next couple of years. To get skilled people, Boeing recruiters have scoured the nation, promising good salaries...
Peter Mark Schifter has directed with the breathless tenderness of a Herschel Weinberger, though with considerably more precision. He keeps the trolley cars on their respective tracks, accelerating entrances and exits so that a group of seven is, suddenly, two, and the sanctity of an emotional confrontation is inevitably, often repeatedly, violated by a hovering group of invaders. Schifter's meticulously timed staging allows us few moments to catch our breath, and leaves us dizzy and dazzled by the evening...
...result is a breathless blend of thrills ("Murder by Cancer-A Bizarre Plot That Killed 2 and Doomed 3 Others"), chills ("CHiPs Star Erik Estrada: I Left My Body After My Motorcycle Crash") and practical, if occasionally farfetched, advice ("Secret of Lifelong Youth Discovered, Claims Scientist"). Most celebrities get good-guy treatment-young actors on the rise and show-biz legends like Bob Hope are particular favorites -but the paper is always on the lookout for a sharp edge. Burnett, whose lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial next month, disputes an article that had her arguing loudly with Henry...
Neil Simon's screen adaptation of his Broadway success Chapter Two takes this touching phenomenon seriously. Simon's central characters, a newly widowed writer (James Caan) and a newly divorced actress (Marsha Mason), snap zingers at each other during a wary meeting, a breathless courtship and a marriage that almost fails before it gets started, conforming to the theatrical convention Simon has created for himself. But they have the good grace to be self-conscious about their verbal twitchiness. They understand there are more important matters at stake here. As a result, the movie is rather blurred...
...justices decide it is. It is little more than embarassing, then, to reveal that Justice Brennan cast his vote using the "limp dick standard" or that "for White, no erections and no insertions equaled no obscenity." The Post's crosstown rival, The Washington Star, has long boasted of its breathless gossip column, The Ear. Woodward and Armstrong supply some strong hardbound competition in parts of their book...