Word: except
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Summertime in the United States is wintertime in Brazil, but that doesn't stop scantilly-clad women from lying on the sands or men from exercising at one of the gyms that dot the beach. Snow is almost unknown except in the southern-most reaches of the country. In Rio the August heat and humidity can wear you out after one errand downtown...
Often, I'd replace Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal's secretaries while they went to lunch. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the man with more power at the Times than anyone except for Publisher "Punch" Sulzberger, was usually out to lunch as well, but when he wasn't I would always look as if all I was doing was watching the lights on his phone. I hoped he'd never catch me reading my copy of The Kingdom and the Power, Gay Talese's "history" of the Times, which contained some less than favorable stories about some...
...whereabouts of the celebrated soprano who had been vacationing on the far bank of the Neckar. I thought I recognized one of the young men from The Whiskey, who turned to me. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, "don't you like the plum cake? You're not eating anything." Except for the presence of the servant, I felt particularly at ease with this mildly pretentious intellectual crowd and their coffee-table chit-chat. The sun pouring in the window relaxed the guests, who sat on ottomans around the black grand piano...
Outside, in the street below, traffic zoomed past. It could have been any street, except that all the cars were Fiats, with an occasional Volvo or BMW, and they drove at breakneck speed, the drivers shouting and hurling insults through the honking of horns. Turning back toward my new acquaintances, they seemed for a moment to be my friends in Tommy's, but the rays of the sun affected me. When I roused from my reverie, I realized that the gibberish they uttered was German, not the vacuous, unintelligible, pinball-punctuated banter overheard on Bow Street. I smiled, shaking...
Robert A. Silverman, HRE's vice president for marketing and tenant relations, said yesterday rent increases for residents who plan to live in the units they currently occupy will be 12 per cent or less, except in cases where rents are below 85-90 per cent of "fair market value...