Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National (where her husband, Robert Stephens, is now the associate director) and stunned the highbrows playing Desdemona to Laurence Olivier's Othello. "Every time, I was greeted as if I'd never been on a stage before," Maggie says, "and always I was Cinderella when the clock struck 12 and the critics went...
With typical Gallic shrewdness, the French calculated that the best way to outdraw the Swiss and Austrian ski resorts was to make a radical departure from the traditional cowbell and cuckoo-clock-village style. They have succeeded in doing just that by carving bold, ultramodern, eminently convenient resorts out of empty mountain space. The most popular resorts-Flaine, Avoriaz, Les Arcs and La Plagne -are located in the Savoie region; generally, the slopes they offer are every bit as formidable as the more famous runs at Kitzbühel and St. Moritz. Crisscrossed with the latest...
...retire to Mexico. No hassle for Alyosha the Beatified to wait so, cross-legged on a floor mat in Tabasco with his other disciples gathered about him. No one forcing Alyosha to eat flesh. No one going down on the beach and retrieving it if Alyosha threw the alarm clock out the window. Alyosha's soul not bearing the weight of other souls in the Here and Now and maybe not even in the To Be. Alyosha not sorry to leave them, only Merilee sad to be anchored here to the south coast by Sam. A little sadness she tried...
...trek takes him to 1,100 mailboxes. He enjoys the job, and knows many of the residents he serves. "I like to talk to people," he says. "It's nice in the summertime." For lunch, he gets 30 minutes. His normal day is eight hours. As a time-clock employee, he gets overtime for putting in more than 40 hours a week...
Tourist: Where is the Sacred White Crocodile? Little Boy: He come Friday 2 o'clock. Tourist: Then why is the tour on Wednesday? Boy: 'Cause, Master, that's when the big tour ship come. [Pause.] But if you give me shilling, maybe crocodile he come...