Word: clocking
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...more modest party scene, but Adelman characteristically keeps her cool. “Stressful about your social life—that’s something I’ll never be,” she laughs. “Have a little faith.” The clock reads 7:42 p.m., and it’s time for us to head across the Charles to Eleganza. Adelman tucks a flask conveniently into her clutch and steps out into the crisp night. Faithful as she is, Adelman knows as well as anyone that sometimes all the Harvard scene requires...
...Lampoon’s castle.)Powers receives many portrait requests, but says he is hesitant to paint people since “I’d make them look more architectural, angular.” Which, he adds, is paradoxical. “I try to make a clock have a little bit of human emotion,” he says. His tendency to blur lines is evident as he compares his painting of architectural lamps to flowers and the side view of a clock to a cityscape. Eighty percent of painting is the preparation, according to Powers, who will...
...body is something that you gotta learn how to control and work with... But I always say I lost the Beastie Boys. But I don't know, what did I lose? I didn't lose s---, y'know. I broke my foot because I got up at six o'clock in the morning, first time I ever broke anything, and it was dark and I didn't know where I was. I was looking for the [yoga] mat and I just fell down the steps and broke my foot. And that's okay though because I learned to practice [yoga...
...waiting for me on the breakfast table. The crossword puzzle is filled in, and my husband is upstairs in his office. I take the papers and my second mug of coffee to the living room. The little girl dog lies in a spotlight on the rug. At ten o'clock, I go upstairs to my study, a former sunporch with nine windows and never enough bookshelves...
...vital role. When West Berlin was blockaded by Soviet troops in 1948 - 60 years ago this June - Tempelhof served as the city's sole lifeline to the West. Cargo planes, known as "raisin bombers," ferried in supplies - from potatoes to Hershey's chocolate bars - every three minutes around the clock for 15 months. The place became a symbol for the West's cold war resolve, which for Berliners culminated in John F. Kennedy's 1963 declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner...