Word: impromptue
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...confirm that it was investigating the travel office, as official guidelines permit if another agency or "credible person" first breaks the news. But on Friday, May 21, as reporters' questions became far more persistent, John Collingwood, head of the FBI press office, was summoned from lunch to an impromptu meeting at the White House. With communications director George Stephanopoulos, press secretary Dee Dee Myers and White House aide David Levy, Collingwood worked out a statement the FBI insists was intended only to guide officials responding to journalists' questions. To the FBI's dismay, the White House trumpeted...
...Hill to push a tax bill that asks the middle class to pay more, the driveway in front of the mansion was clogged again with stretch limos bearing people who think sacrifice is a day when the personal masseuse doesn't show up. Sinbad, the comedian, held his own impromptu press conference in front of the West Wing, explaining his deeply held belief that it was every American's right to have his hair done daily. Rap star M.C. Hammer was also on the premises but unavailable for comment...
...late start to the evening gave roughly 350 of Harvard's would-be funksters ample time to gather in the Dunster courtyard for what at times looked like an impromptu high school backyard party. At 9:30, the doors to the Dunster dining hall opened, and most audience members got their hands marked with the letter "F". An anonymous sources close to the Missionary Monk Messiah revealed to this reviewer that the "F" stood for "Funk...
...invited to participate, at its Manhattan stop or later this year in Chicago, Boston, Washington and Atlanta. Saltimbanco (an Italian term meaning "street performer") will leave no one untouched and few unprodded or untweaked. A visitor may discover a sobbing clown in his lap or find herself in an impromptu troupe of somersaulters. One gent was lured onstage to safari through an invisible jungle, then high-noon it in a sham shootout...
...than to the West Coast sound stage. She is comfortable as Katherine in Branagh's Henry V or as Beatrice in his new film Much Ado About Nothing, as a 1930s English domestic in Remains of the Day or a '40s femme fatale in Dead Again. Especially, delightfully, in Impromptu, as a 19th century French duchess who plays hostess to a rowdy houseful of artists. Her take on this French version of the upper-class twit is cutting but not hostile -- a sweet satire in the Joyce Grenfell manner...