Word: midafternoon
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...weather today: sunny and cold, with highs in the forties. Drizzles by midafternoon. Chances of rain, sixty percent. Getting colder tonight, with lows in the twenties. Rain turning into snow, with chances of a storm after midnight...
...midafternoon, lamps...
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN RON Brown was beaming as he bounced into the CNN Washington bureau (where I work part time). And rightly so. It was midafternoon on Election Day, and exit polls showed that Bill Clinton was going to win big. But before going on-air, Brown sobered up. "I'd better not seem too happy," he said. "The polls are still open." Brown soon appeared on TV screens around the world expressing cautious optimism to an interviewer who knew as well as Brown did that the result was a foregone conclusion...
Poets and playwrights and novelists have always processed political events into entertainments and legends. Television now hastens reality into art with a sort of Irish efficiency: when an Irish Republican Army terrorist-hero blows up a British army truck in midafternoon, the deed will probably be a song in the pubs that night. Such ready glorification is one reason that no peaceful settlement has been found. Sitcom writers have developed similar reflexes. Topicality, however, ages a script rapidly. It strands an episode in time, and makes reruns seem alienated, quaint...
...Wednesday two weeks ago. I came in the midafternoon for a visit. Allegedly, I took her in the attic, according to what the child-protection agency told me was the allegation, and did unspeakable things to her. But nothing at all happened. Nothing. In light-years I wouldn't go into an attic, I wouldn't even know how to find Mia's attic. I'm a famous claustrophobic. And I would not molest my daughter...