Word: stopwatches
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...software manufacturers have begun charging for what they used to provide free. MicroPro still lists its overburdened customer-service number but also offers a $90-per-year premium service contract with an unlisted help line. Bargain-basement software firms like Paperback take credit-card numbers, time calls with a stopwatch and charge customers by the minute. One result: fewer queries. "If people have to pay a few dollars for the phone call," says Osborne, "it's amazing how smart they...
...lose to Treen unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." A riveting stump speaker who sprinkles his oratory with Cajun French, Edwards reputedly can film a 28-second campaign commercial in a single take without a script, a rehearsal or a stopwatch. He has run 15 times for public office, including four terms in Congress, and has never lost. Sighed the vanquished Treen: "It's difficult for me to understand his popularity. But how do you explain how 900 people drank Kool-Aid with Jim Jones...
...Weston-super-Mare. Eddington hands out three gifts: a bouquet of flowers, a bottle of whisky and an ax. These pass from hand to hand as swiftly as batons in a relay race. The action is a testimonial to Director Michael Blakemore's tornado pace and stopwatch timing...
...Mendel, played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
Every knows craggy Walter Cronkite and dashing Dan Rather. The "60 Minutes" stopwatch and unblinking network eye are two of the most familiar symbols of American television. But few people ever get to see behind the slick facade of the nation's most popular broadcasting conglomerate let alone work for a whole summer with Cronkite. Rather and the legions of the CBS news division...