Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First, she tells him, she will talk about the Queen, who has just completed a visit to California, and runs through her jokes about the Queen's clothes ("Gowns by Helen Keller"). Then she suggests that if Carson wants to interrupt her-the Tonight show is only slightly less spontaneous than a shuttle launch-he might ask her if she saw Nancy Reagan during the Queen's visit. "I'll say: 'She was at my house for lunch! Do you know why people turn off on Nancy Reagan? She's too pretty. They expect...
...adult development course meets in a two-hour lecture every Friday afternoon with a one-hour section during the week. Harry M. Lasker, lecturer on Education, faces the unusually large class--more than 70 students who scrawl down notes from his casually delivered lecture. The students frequently interrupt Lesser's presentation with questions and Lesser leaves time at the end of the two hours to field any other questions the students might have...
Three women attend the section, and all are initially skeptical that women use language much differently from men, citing their experience at Harvard. After a brief, informal and sometimes halting discussion, Vicky focuses on the issue of how conversations progress, and cites studies showing that men interrupt far more than women do. She contrasts the world of Harvard with her own background in rural Montana. By the end of the hour, the women have been gently hooked...
...interest groups), reduce the availability of imported goods, increase unemployment, and in general create social, economic and political tensions of the kind that preceded and indeed contributed to the revolution in Iran. Such tensions not only threaten the domestic stability of these countries, creating conditions for upheavals that could interrupt oil supplies, but could even turn one oil exporting country against another, as has been the case in the Iran-Iraq war. At the very least, sharply falling oil revenues today and in the next few years breed powerful incentives for OPEC, even without another disruption, to increase oil prices...
Throughout the dance six male clowns, dressed in white tutus, imitate a corps de ballet of Swan Lake and inelegantly entertain and interrupt Fontessa. Ragtime and The Man with amusing burlesques. The piece's success rides more on its dramatic and humorous aspects than inherent strengths in the dance. Towards the end Fontessa enters the stage in a sequined silver bikint to the song "If my friends could see me now." At one point one almost expects Ragtime to open his mouth and begin talking--certainly a radical departure from any traditional dance form...