Word: desk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University hires hundreds of Harvard student workers to stay through Commencement. They work as baby-sitters, bell-hops and drivers, and answer questions at the information desk...
...competition with Broadway fare, Miss Daisy last week won Drama Desk Award nominations for Playwright Alfred Uhry, Director Ron Lagomarsino and all three members of the well-nigh perfect cast. Attempts are under way to move it to a larger theater, and eventually it seems fated to follow the traditional happy path of an off-Broadway hit: toward a long and honorable life in regional theaters across America...
...public manner, and sometimes his personal demeanor, seemed designed to keep secrets. He mumbled and seemed to bumble, and wherever he worked in his dozen years as a top federal official, his desk and even his clothes suggested a mindless disarray. When the Tower commission tried to find out why a memo Casey had written about the Iran-contra affair never reached the White House, his aide's explanation seemed almost plausible: Casey had put it in the wrong...
...thought of getting up at 5 a.m., as some predecessors tried to do, appalls him; instead, he climbs into his White House limo at about 7:40 and is at his desk by 8. Well, maybe just a few minutes after 8. And the idea of staying around until midnight is equally disgusting. He departs by 6:30 if the world is calm, and he does his best to keep it that...
...encounters with the trappings of White House power have produced amused wonder. Spotting the multibuttoned flashing phone on his desk, he asked with his chuckle, "What is all this about?" There is no evidence he ever got an answer -- or cared. Baker keeps his office door open and occasionally calls out to folks padding down the halls. His desk is reckoned to be more clean than not, though it sometimes is hard to decide...