Word: faste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three days a fast-walking visitor can hop across continents by taking a boat down the Yangtze River, touching an exact model of the Soviet spaceship that ventured through Halley's comet and seeing John Lennon's flower-decorated Rolls-Royce. One of the chief delights of most visitors seems to be filling Expo passports with the stamps of each country. Children, adults, everyone wants a stamp. When the emblem of the Ivory Coast failed to arrive during the first week, a slim young woman in a long black-and-white dress made do by patiently writing in each book...
...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...
...Harvard has played it a little fast and loose," Bachrach said of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence's letter asking that SASC clear Harvard Yard of its shanties for Commencement activities. He was planning to deliver a letter to President Derek C. Bok today, but declined to state its contents...
...Tombstone had been around since 1877, when the discovery of silver deposits rushed it into being. Like so many other by now familiar Western mining towns, it had a brief population explosion, a flirt with naughty notoriety (in 1880 a good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town"), and finally fell into desuetude, having little more purpose in the world than grist for the mills of pulp- fiction writers. It clung on, though...
...happened so fast. One minute, the long-cherished dream of streamlining and simplifying the cumbersome U.S. tax system seemed moribund, unable to withstand the hordes of lobbyists and influence peddlers arrayed against it. Then, shortly after midnight last Wednesday, the entire Senate Finance Committee was on its feet roundly applauding the chairman, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood. In the committee's offices down the hall, jubilant committee staffers uncorked a case of champagne. In an auditorium downstairs where the deliberations were heard on an intercom, an overflow crowd of lobbyists hissed...