Word: hiatuses
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...ease with which Sadat could topple Heikal or free old conspirators indicates how much popularity Egypt's placid President now enjoys. Sadat has skillfully neutralized all of the political opponents who challenged him for power in the hiatus that followed Nasser's death. But what finally propelled him to his current eminence was Egypt's successful prosecution of the October War with Israel. Sadat has now begun to utilize that power both at home and outside Egypt...
Jack Warner shut down the animation unit for a few years during the early '50s when he thought that 3-D was the thing of the future. During the hiatus, Jones worked for Walt Disney, whom he admires ("the D.W. Griffith of animation"), but whose creative control he found restrictive. After a few more years of activity, the Warner Bros, animation unit was closed for good in 1962. Since then Jones has worked mostly on TV, producing a syndicated series called The Curiosity Shop and directing an occasional half-hour animated special, like the sweetly eccentric A Very Merry...
...Baltimore Orioles' Chuck Thompson was the radio phantom of my boyhood, and even Chuck would delay his account sometimes. In the hiatus between crack of bat and disappearing home run, Chuck was ruminating. Only when he was ready would he ejaculate, "Go to war, Miss Agnes." (While my point is correct, this is an exaggeration. Thompson reserved that homespun judgement for only the most momentous occasions, like back-to-back homeruns by the Robinson boys...
...neck and crow's-feet-I could be the centerfold for the Audubon Society." Her on-camera rejuvenation will be accomplished with tape and makeup, but the idea for the show came from Bea Arthur herself, who plans to have the real thing during the mid-season hiatus...
...died when Howard was but eight, leaving the boy in the cloying clutches of a genteel but overbearing mother. Sickly, precocious, reclusive, Howard began writing eerie fiction early, nuzzling in imagination up to decay, decomposition and other horrors softer and stickier than a mother's kisses. After a hiatus, he resumed writing in his late 20s, finding a ready market in the cheap magazines of the day-mainly Weird Tales -and becoming the center of a small cadre of writers of similar bent...