Word: stopwatched
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...final week as anchorman Cronkite is at his desk as the bright lights turn on about ten minutes before the broadcast, in the low-ceilinged newsroom on Manhattan's West Side. In shirtsleeves, Cronkite reads through the copy with a stopwatch, addresses a question over his shoulder to whoever should know the answer ("Don't we have any more on this?"), occasionally turns to the typewriter to rephrase a sentence. Nobody speaks to him unless spoken to. The same sort of invisible cocoon isolates a professional football coach on the sideline from the players around him. Someone unobtrusively...
After a clean break, Cauthen dropped Affirmed into second place, waiting for Believe It, third in the Kentucky Derby, to lead the way. When Believe It hung back, Cauthen moved to the front. With stopwatch precision, he then cut the pace, lulling the field into marching to his drumbeat. Affirmed ran the first half-mile in a plater-slow 47 3/5 sec., Cauthen actually managing to rate, or husband, his horse while loping on the lead. Thus, when Jorge Velasquez pushed Calumet Farm's Alydar into his stretch surge, Affirmed was rested and ready to run. Said Cauthen simply...
...there's the story, of a lot of hard work without a coach holding a stopwatch or leaving a cloud of chalkdust...
Director Ed Berman moves the evening along with stopwatch precision. Because of his gift for parody and incessant wordplay, Stoppard's own affinity may be not so much with Wilde and Coward as with S.J. Perelman, a writer whom he greatly admires...
Bradley glanced at his stopwatch, then looked into the camera...