Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressed...by the manner in which the details of my career were gleaned from all parts of the country in a few weeks' time and so effectively pressed into a capsule of four pages. The next time I want to cut a show, I'll call you all in... OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2ND New York City...
Your statement that the destruction of my wrecked "web" brought down several Boston trust companies is perfidious. Under any other form of government, it would call for a challenge to a duel. For this time, I shall refrain from perforating your hide on condition that you make public amend by printing this letter verbatim...
Whose voice gave Tarzan's call? I ought to know: I was there. Johnny Weissmuller can--and did--do his own Tarzan call. End of discussion? MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN ("JANE") New York City...
...obscene topiary and the hot new fashion of wearing two-thirds stockings (two-thirds of the way to the knee or two-thirds of the way up the leg or maybe a third missing in patches; nobody seems to know). The writers feel oppressed by an editor they call N.R.F., for No Redeeming Features. The Medicine writer often comes down with the symptoms of the disease he's writing about. Office romances are carried on so discreetly that the rest of the staff becomes aware of them sometimes only through a surprise wedding invitation or a particularly mortifying scene...
...first interview we did with Mikhail Gorbachev, prior to the Geneva summit in 1985, was the first he gave to an American news organization--and contained some important signals. Henry Grunwald, TIME's editor-in-chief, received the call indicating that Gorbachev had agreed to a meeting. Grunwald, managing editor Ray Cave and I [as chief of correspondents] flew by Concorde to Paris and then on to Moscow. When we saw Gorbachev the next day, in the preliminary chitchat, he said, "What was Aeroflot like? I need to know...