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...TIMEstyle, invented almost entirely by Hadden, lent it an urgency of mannered telegraphese. John Martin, Hadden's cousin and an early writer and editor at the magazine, left this account of Hadden at work: "Brit would edit copy to eliminate unnecessary verbiage...If you wrote something like 'in the nick of time,' five words, he might change it to 'in time's nick,' three words...At all times he had by him a carefully annotated translation of the Iliad. On the back cover, he had listed hundreds of words, especially verbs and the compound adjectives, which had seemed...
...salons, a couple of seedy looking rent-to own agencies, a Spanish-American food store and a check-cashing operation. Nearby are a few small restaurants, one of which is aptly named "South End House of Pizza." The menu resembles Tommy's, and the place smells the same, but Nick behind the counter says no, they don't deliver to Harvard Square. Nick doesn't have any advice on what to see in the South End, much less any information about this particular intersection. In defense, he admits, "I've only worked two weeks here...
...raging, God-haunted 19th century abolitionist John Brown, is about to hit the bookstores, and he has learned this very day that director Atom Egoyan's movie of his novel The Sweet Hereafter has earned two Academy Award nominations. Another film, drawn from his novel Affliction and starring Nick Nolte, is ready for distribution. He smiles. Equal to equal, a diamond stud in his left ear glinting encouragingly, he addresses the 11 Princeton freshmen and sophomores in this creative-writing seminar as "writers...
...into film, faced big increases in raw-material costs. And everywhere families began eyeing grandma's precious flatware as a possible source of cash. "We think we may see the spike reach double digits--maybe $10 an ounce--but one doesn't really know in this rarefied territory," says Nick Moore, director of Flemings Global Mining Group in London...
...attacker on the ice, the Terriers dropped into their power-play umbrella and worked the puck around the Crimson zone. It only took a few passes before Tom Poti, the Tournament MVP, rifled a right-point blast toward the Harvard net. Camped out in the low slot was freshman Nick Gillis who tipped in the game-winner, opening the flood gates to the B.U. bench...