Word: hour-a-day
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...bedimpled wife Meryl, perhaps off for a late brewski with his best friend, Marlon. You have it all, Truman: good afternoon, good evening and good night! Except for one thing, folks. The whole kit and kaboodle is fake. Truman (Jim Carrey) is the unknowing star of a 24-hour-a-day TV drama that has been aired live around the world for nearly 30 years, since the day Truman was born. Everyone else in town, including Meryl (Laura Linney) and Marlon (Noah Emmerich), is an actor, improvising from a loose scenario devised by the project's creator, Christof (Ed Harris...
...star of Nickelodeon's "The Mystery Files ofShelby Wu"--will be on the road again soon,packing up and moving to Montreal for five monthsof week-long, 12-hour-a-day tapings for theteen-detective show...
...company still faces many challenges. The most formidable: nonpayment of utility bills by its electricity customers, a cash-flow challenge that Rumyantsev calls "a 24-hour-a-day headache." Yet Mosenergo is not alone in this agony: being stiffed by customers is common for Russian utilities and other businesses in the brash new age of no-holds-barred capitalism. If anything, the company may be less plagued than others, since its center of operations is in Moscow, where business is booming and power consumers are presumably more flush...
...because she was disgusted by how few women were getting elected. Her idea was simple: recruit, train and endorse pro-choice Democratic women candidates, then get women around the country to give them money and votes. EMILY holds seminars for candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries --grueling,16-hour-a-day simulations that battle-harden the players--and bundles small contributions to enormous effect. emily's 40,000 members have helped elect five women Senators and 34 women Representatives. The $8.2 million that members contributed to candidates in 1994 made EMILY the year's biggest Democratic giver--and its president...
...undergraduate days, the Hallicrafters brought news of the decay of the French West African Empire, the enduring South American boundary disputes, and above all, the deepening provincialism of a United States at war in a former French colony it considered wholly Asian. Accidental daybreak listening lured me into programming directed at non-American listeners deeply intrigued by all things American, including the vagaries of American English. For 35 years I listened, lately with a magnificent solid-state receiver I rescued one graduation day from a curbside trash barrel and refitted with a long copper antenna, realizing that my hour...