Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the board meeting last January at which his father announced that his son would get the keys to the kingdom, the drama was heightened when the famous clock on the Times Building suddenly went dark. Now it is ticking again, as Sulzberger gallops out of the building, talking about the new plant, covering Brooklyn as thoroughly as Beirut, the outer suburbs to conquer, Pulitzers to win. Without a sigh -- he is not a sigher -- he turns down 43rd Street to catch the bus, and says, "I'm only 40. I've got time...
Patience may have finally run out. The U.N. inspection team that had been parked round the clock outside Iraq's Agriculture Ministry for 17 days, waiting to search for missile documents believed to be stashed inside, abandoned its mission. Faced with menacing mob demonstrations that included peltings with eggs and tomatoes, tire slashings and an attempted assault with a skewer, the inspectors retreated, empty-handed...
...absurdities of character and an ear for dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them, alas, happen offstage and are reported in monologues by the decorators...
When they do, is a shutout conceivable? Now there's a fantasy for the Dream Team to ponder. Sleep on it, Michael. Just don't forget to set your alarm clock...
Jaeger said mediation could allow for "roundthe clock" negotiation. He said the union isenthusiastic about such an arrangement. "At thispoint...we're very conscious of the fact thatwe're three weeks past the expiration of our oldagreement Jaeger said...