Word: dispatcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CITY (HBO) Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and friends patrol Manhattan like a Fantastic Four whose weapons include sarcasm and Prada. Maturing this year from a raunchy romp into an arch cultural dispatch, it's a refreshing story of professional women who don't need the love of a good man so much as want...
...phone. If you want to ask him a question, you must follow his circuitous automated phone menu for at least 20 minutes, after which you can talk to an operator who will say that you have reached the wrong department. Your problem/question is the business of Cindy in the Dispatch Department, and Cindy is only available on the Third Monday after Lent, from 9 a.m. Pacific Standard Time to 12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time...
...When Bank Boston took an extra $16.42 out of my checking account last month, I saw this as a chance to take a big poke at the Man. I tried to reach Cindy in the Dispatch Department, but since it's only November and Lent is in March, I thought it might be best to head over to the actual bank of Bank Boston. Armed with my receipts and bank statements from the last year (one who fights the Man must always have the necessary documents in hand to prove she is correct), I plunked myself down in front...
...first-ever meeting between Harvard and Drexel, the Crimson waited until the absolute last minute to dispatch the Dragons...
Robert Hughes' graphic account of his accident in Australia made for gripping reading [DISPATCH, Oct. 11]. He said of his near-death experience that Jesus "didn't show." But one cannot expect to find Christ in death if one has not known him in life. MARIUS J. DE WAAL Stellenbosch, South Africa...