Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other White House insiders also suffer from Deaver's tributes. He describes Attorney General Edwin Meese as a man who would "as a matter of loyalty or conviction, sit there and deny something he knew to be true." Vice President George Bush gets high marks for calling all over the U.S. to provide a fresh joke for the President's daily briefing...
...some advertiser purchased NESN time, and those commercials had to run. So virtually every time the referee blew the whistle for a face-off, the Harvard and B.C. players had to sit around twiddling their thumbs for about a minute while the few viewers at home watched a commercial for new cars...
...Here comes a clerk -- whooosh! -- on roller skates. And just look at these 20-ft. mountains of merchandise, from catsup to cameras, mustard to mufflers. Disoriented yet? This is the green zone, where groceries are sold. For everything from mouthwash to antifreeze, go to the blue zone. Tired? Here, sit down on one of the convenient wooden benches and sip some free cider or coffee with other weary shoppers...
Other conventions: an anchorman is expected to sit behind a desk and to hold in his hands a stack of papers, even though he is actually reading from a TelePrompTer beside the camera. NBC's Willard Scott does not dispense the weather until he has showed snapshots of 100-year-old people and wished them a happy birthday. If Scott omits the birthdays, the net of expectation thrums a little oddly...
Kennedy, a 1961 graduate of Harvard Law School, will become the 104th justice to sit on the nation's highest court. He is now an appellate judge in California. He will be sworn in February...