Word: spare
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...fanfare of their emi-nence, swiftly rehearse the script, do the show, then zip away to the next emer-gency. Welles was aces at this game. He needn?t spend months reimagining a play script, or weeks in rehearsal; he could do the shows in what passed for spare time in his life. And he could be anyone: Canadian quints or, his most famous characterization, The Shadow, asking, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" and laughing with a maniacal sonorousness that winked at the listeners or frightened them. Welles loved radio; it loved him back, whatever...
...Somehow - after the desperate agitation of the dress rehearsal - the live show was always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity...
...where traditional criticism is democratized, where the ?lite meet defeat at the hands of the cyber-rabble. You don?t need experience, insight or a spell- check function (Note to all websters: "its" is a possessive, "it?s" is a contraction), just passion and a lot of spare time...
...HEIR AND THE SPARE: Four years after Diana?s death, Prince William and Prince Harry remain the most written-about teenagers in the world. On August 14, Morrow added to the verbiage, with "Diana?s Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They Loved" by Christopher Andersen, the bestselling author of "The Day Diana Died" (a No. 1 NYT bestseller), "Jack and Jackie, "Jackie After Jack," and "The Day John Died." It's timely, as William heads off to college, and the August 31 anniversary of Diana's death nears, and there are lots of never-seen...
...SPARE A DIME? The U.S. jobless rate is stable at 4.5%, but other signs of woe persist...