Word: punctually
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bergman is Teutonically punctual: he begins filming precisely at 9 and stops for lunch exactly at noon; resumes filming exactly at 1 and pauses for a 30-minute coffee break precisely at 2:30. Except for night shooting on the outdoor set, the day ends at 4:30. "I am obsessive about films," he says. "I feel a lust while I'm directing, a definite sexual feeling, but I must always struggle to keep my obsession in control...
FRIDAY. Bronfman eagerly kept the appointment, this time driving to J.F.K. with just the $2.3 million in the trunk of a different car. Raven was punctual, but he directed Bronfman from one phone booth to another through a wide section of Long Island for four hours-a fairly standard kidnap technique designed to detect the presence of tailing police and prevent the tracing of phone calls. Accustomed to being driven by chauffeurs, Bronfman had difficulty finding his way through strange neighborhoods and traffic. At one point in Queens, he made a wrong turn, nearly hit another car in circling...
Last week, as punctual as autumn, a new notice arrived. Received: an extra 60 minutes in the sheets. Please remit two seasons of gloom...
Minutes later the hidden agents?there were 40 in all?got the word over their short-wave radios: "Suspects are proceeding down Spruce Street, headed for Gold." In the third-floor observation post, one agent cracked to TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, "The Chinese are very punctual." So they were?right on time for the most important narcotics bust this summer...
...answer is in the stars, the psyche or the cold eye of reason. In eight cases out of ten, asserts Astrologist Linda Goodman (Sun Signs), people who were born under Aries, Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces will be late most of the time. A Leo will be punctual and tardy in equal measure. "No one," she says, "tells the lion what...