Word: interview
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used for 10 days, haven't eaten or slept and have run out of drugs. They're wiped out, feel heavy and can hardly move. Type 2 is the acute public-disturbance person. They start fighting with people or screaming in the street. Often they're impossible to interview because they're so paranoid. Third are people who use crank a lot and notice that their arms are numb or they're having trouble breathing...
There is no love lost between the two houses. In an interview last year, Bertelli accused Ford of stealing his wife's ideas: "They did black nylon bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...their motel as a notorious Billings crank dealer, facing state charges at the time, received a steady stream of predawn customers in a room directly across the courtyard. ("You know he's in," the night clerk said, "when the phone lines all light up at once.") Approached for an interview about his trade, the wanted man, a tattooed giant on a bed surrounded by a clutch of weary party girls, merely said, "I'm busy. I don't have time now." Last week the alleged dealer was arrested in another Billings motel in a raid that netted several ounces...
...duties are simple: you have an obligation to earn your dinner by asking questions of the person on the right and then listening carefully to the answers. People want to talk about themselves. Sometimes that is even interesting. Keep it light. Don't talk too much. Don't brag. Interview fellow guests as if you were, say, David Letterman or Jay Leno, except without the wisecracks...
...been at it for only about a week, but I can already tell that it's going to be a valuable experience. That may sound like a line for a job interview I will be giving sometime in the future years ("It was a valuable experience. I learned so much."), but it fortunately is true...