Word: late
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Recently Ross received a phone call from a friend--Michael Jackson--who was also working on a new album. "Late, late at night I get a call: 'Hello, Diana?' I said, 'Michael, is that you?' He said he was working on an album, and the album would be out sometime in the year...
...think that someone would have reached for a hose sooner. But with the launch last week of RealNetworks' remarkably useful JukeBox--a free bit of software that makes it almost too easy to convert music CDs into pass-around computer files--my hunch is that it's already too late. I can smell the burning plastic discs from here...
...puzzling enough to require three wagonloads of explication. The author may have been right, incidentally, not to present this rough man's thoughts in rough dialect. For long paragraphs, however, the words that come out of Watson's mouth are, somewhat jarringly, the worthy, scholarly, perceptive, always interesting, late 20th century observations of Peter Matthiessen. About his quirky trilogy a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many...
...already difficult decision to interrupt a career and go to business school may be getting tougher, as top B schools are increasingly choosing applicants with more years of work experience. In the late 1980s the average business-school student was 24 years old; now the average age is 29. "For lots of women, this is a time when they're making decisions about family and marriage," says Gray. "People are in committed relationships, and traditionally it's the woman's career that takes the back seat." Gray's didn't, but she did spend her first four months at school...
...reticence. Formally, the book is a study of postwar West German literature. But it has a stinging moral premise: that even the country's most liberal writers of the period committed sins of omission when dealing with the legacy of mass murder. Schlant's evidence is eye opening. The late '40s, for example, were dominated by a "literature of rubble," which dealt narrowly with Germany's wartime suffering. An anthology of stories published by the school of writers known famously as Group 47 contained no mention of Jews...