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...tact. Poised and pleasant with clients, Watkins often barreled right through her colleagues. They nicknamed her the "Buzz Saw." One boss pulled her aside and said, "Sherron, you kind of cut people off at the jugular. There they are bleeding at the neck, and then you decide it was rude, but it's too late, you can't stop the blood flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sherron Watkins: The Party Crasher | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...from people whose home towns you criticize? Surprisingly few. People from Bradford got very upset - there were lots of letters to the local papers. The sad thing is that they acknowledged the truth of what I said, even though it was only a joke. They just thought it was rude of me to point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Traveling Man | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

...MULTITASKING RUDE? I JUST CHECKED MY EMAIL WHILE WE WERE TALKING. If the other person knows about it, yes. This is one of the great advantages that manners have over morals: if nobody knows, it doesn't count. If I hear the toilet flushing, it counts; if I don't, it doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Judith Martin | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...show is the two of them telling this story about how Rob Weiss, VH1's vice president of East Coast programming, kept poking Gest while Minnelli was singing at a dinner party in their apartment, demanding that Gest get some younger guests to perform. It cannot be underestimated how rude they found this. I began to understand when they made me walk to the exact place in the apartment where this took place and re-enacted it for me, with me playing the role of Gest, which meant getting poked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Love That Dares to Speak | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...Weiss was ruder than rude to my wife," says Gest, post poking. "Forty people watched in horror. Who leaves their cell phone on? He looks at the message, doesn't turn it off. It rings again. He checks the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Love That Dares to Speak | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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