Word: interregnum
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...Artemis Fowl the new, or at least the interregnum, Harry Potter? Talk Miramax Books, which enlisted the aid of its fellow Disney subsidiary Hyperion Books for Children to help publish and market the new contender, insists that its strenuous efforts on behalf of Artemis Fowl (277 pages; $16.95), which goes on sale in the U.S. this week, have little to do, at least intentionally, with the Harry Potter phenomenon. "It's not the next Harry Potter," says Talk Miramax editor in chief Jonathan Burnham. "But the book trade has said to us, 'Well, this is great, because this year there...
...making lanyards for The Man. Once upon a time, for kids and adults alike, the season's operative word was languor; today it's grosses. Because summer itself, like the movies to which the season lends its name as adjective, has got bigger, hypier, noisier, more aggressive. Formerly an interregnum, it is now an event, a three-month-long national happening with increasing numbers of people, places and things bidding for our attention and, more to the point, our income. For example: if recent trends hold, betwixt Memorial Day and Labor Day this year, Americans will spend more than...
...Interregnum is never a good idea, andcertainly not in an academic institution,"Uyterhoeven says...
...spent much of his interregnum visiting computer, cable and other high- tech firms, trying to scope out who would have the upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
...FIRST 100 DAYS CANNOT be successful without an intense interregnum. The time between now and Jan. 20 will tell the tale, and by all accounts Clinton is just beginning to focus on the transition. But for months a number of campaign insiders and several groups officially unaffiliated with Clinton have been thinking hard about governing. A small cadre led by campaign chairman Mickey Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer, has been working secretly for eight weeks. In Washington the Democratic Leadership Council has been pondering policy and structural questions for even longer, and Clinton's aides expect its conclusions will carry...