Word: yawns
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...superb political theater, a perfect antidote to his election-year vulnerabilities. For a solid week on the evening news, he appeared not as the bellicose ideologue who can somehow manage to sleep through crises, but rather as the pragmatic peacemaker who can travel half the globe with nary a yawn or a stumble. Stopping over in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the return flight, he described his trip in terms that sounded suspiciously like a campaign speech. "My visit to China has convinced me that our future is bright," he told 500 community leaders packed into a local auditorium. "America...
...there was no sense of anticlimax when it actually happened. The news still stunned a Washington already benumbed by the latest upheaval in Lebanon. U.S. policymakers and experts were awakened early Friday morning, and their reaction was, in the main, anything but a yawn. A major event had occurred, and there was no way to be fully prepared...
Half past eleven. Yawn. Brush teeth. Ready for bed. Let's see, what to watch, what to watch? There's always Johnny. Wonder who's on? Not Charles Nelson Reilly and Charo again. Nightline? Nope, too heavy. Kojak rerun? Nah, seen that one. What's this? Thicke of the Night! What kind of name is that? Oh, yeah, isn't he that Canadian guy who was supposed to challenge Carson? A comedy-variety show. Hmmm. Let's have a look...
...only 1.3 tickets for every Japanese citizen. Though in 1982 both attendance and revenue rose significantly for the first time in two decades, the increase was due entirely to a 13.4% surge in distributors' grosses for foreign films-including Japan's new alltime box-office champ (yawn), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial...
Bond glanced up across the baccarat board and allowed his smile to widen into a yawn. "I'll cover the bet with this Fabergé egg if you don't very much mind...