Word: floorful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour before dawn, as Mario Cuomo sits alone in the small upstairs study writing longhand entries in his diary. It is a discipline Cuomo has engaged in for almost 15 years. Outside, the streets are empty. His wife Matilda is still asleep nearby, and on the floor above, two of their children, Madeline, 21, and Christopher, 15, have two more hours before they wake...
...gets a regular call from an aide in New York City who summarizes the morning papers. Cuomo dissects everything that is written about him. Each morning he does 17 minutes of yoga, therapy for his bad back. His official day begins when he rides to his second-floor office in the ornate elevator built to accommodate Governor Franklin Roosevelt's wheelchair...
...seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that as the son, Macchio looks so skittish that his feet are almost never flat on the floor: he is forever on his toes, primed for flight. Early in the play De Niro makes the boy squirm by pledging to be his best friend, a pal so close he would pick his son's nose for him. Later, when he learns the boy has sampled heroin, he aims...
President Corazon Aquino receives visitors in the second-floor bedroom of a guesthouse at Malacaang Palace. Last week, when the new leader welcomed TIME's Hong Kong bureau chief Sandra Burton, a close observer of Aquino's career since their first meeting more than two years ago, the President was in her office with her daughter and personal secretary nearby. Discussing her first twelve weeks in power, Aquino was as animated and forthright as ever. Excerpts from their talk...
...grown from $20 million in billings ten years ago to $245 million today, partly by telling consumers why computers will change their lives. "The politicians will take credit for it; the businessmen will take credit for it, but"--and here he points out the window of his 39th-floor office across the Charles River toward Harvard and M.I.T. --"the real key to it all is the universities...