Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sequel of its own. Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail and vocards, Clarke's future bears a marked resemblance to the present. Plowing through the void, crew members of the spaceship Universe sit back to enjoy their in-flight film, Gone With the Wind, and Floyd informs a colleague, "They're relaying a lot of material back to Earth through the big dish on Ganymede . . . The networks are yelling for news...
...more everything was fine. Until this fall, that is, when her mystifying gloomy feelings resurfaced. "All of a sudden I found myself obsessed with getting out of here," says Krabacher. "I didn't want that." Instead, she sought help at a local clinic, where she received a novel prescription: sit in front of a bank of bright lights for several hours a day. Within a week she was back to her normal sunny self. Says Krabacher, who now basks in fake sunlight each day at the desk in her office: "I'm finally having a good winter up here...
...million members believe that together, we can make a difference," she says. "We'll make sure you know what the candidates say -- and what they don't say -- about issues." Her tone is sweetly reasonable. But just to make sure those video-dazed viewers in Iowa and New Hampshire sit up and listen, she shakes her spectacles at them and adds, "If you think you've seen it all, you ain't seen nothin...
...Gorbachev showed an avid interest in the press. Vladimir Maximov, a writer now living in Paris who worked for a Stavropol Komsomol newspaper in the 1950s, recalls that the young official often visited the paper's offices for a chat. "He would sit down with us in a casual manner," says Maximov. "We would uncork a bottle of wine ((for all his antialcoholism campaigning, Gorbachev still enjoys an occasional drink)) and usually talk politics. Khrushchev's report on the crimes of the Stalinist era had recently appeared. The entire country was still reeling from shock." Maximov and others of Gorbachev...
...when Texaco filed for Chapter 11 protection to avoid posting a bond to cover the jury award. Charged Texaco Chief Executive James Kinnear: "Pennzoil has placed its own greed above any consideration of fundamental fairness or the public welfare." Said Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "Maybe now we should sit back a while and see how they like bankruptcy...