Word: hour-and-a-half
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...Neighborhood requires its audience to be attentive and ready for a hour-and-a-half of sheer concentration. It's an interactive experience that can be both fulfilling and exasperating, but it's really a matter of taste whether you think it's worth the effort...
...each new revelation to intone self-righteously, We never did that in our day. This generally turns out to mean, We never did exactly that. There were cocktail parties for contributors at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but "the White House per se was not used." Clinton "is giving these hour-and-a-half klatches...We would never have allowed people to pay for this kind of time in the West Wing...
...correspondents Joelle Attinger; and Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame, the Speaker was a chastened man coping with the fact that he has become a liability to the party he helped transform. He arrived with his hair still wet from his morning swim, and his mood during the hour-and-a-half session was cautious; he remembered to rein himself in. In fact, he joked about how careful he has to be these days, quickly and comically correcting himself (changing "grotesque" to "sad," for instance, to describe his recent media coverage, and calling psychologist turned politician Lenora Fulani first...
...that you're "fourth in line," which could mean 15 minutes or 45. Or they'll give you a time to dissuade you, as when I called Tuesday night at 8:50 p.m. in the worst rainstorm of the season, and they told me it would be an hour-and-a-half wait. What good is an escort service if it can't provide students with safe, dry rides at the times we need them most...
About 50 people attended an hour-and-a-half debate last night among the council presidential and vice-presidential candidates, sponsored by the Harvard Political Union and The Crimson...