Word: startingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...From the start, Case and Levin not unreasonably insisted that open access was integral to their companies' success. Why would Time Warner, which controls 20% of the nation's cable subscribers, close off competitors' access to its cable resources and risk its own access to the other 80% of the market? But after the Disney debacle, that sort of logic carried no weight...
...fear is that the AOL contingent will drive for growth too fast. There are rumors that the music or movie businesses might be sold, although Parsons denies this. And at Time Inc., the publishing division, there is concern that fledgling projects, including magazine start-ups, might be cut because the new regime is so short-term oriented. "The minute there is a case where we're being asked to cut into our core business because some other division didn't make its numbers, there's going to be trouble," says an executive. "If top people like Logan, [Jeff] Bewkes...
...something goes wrong at about the moment they start getting romantically involved. Maybe it's a failure of chemistry between Gibson and Hunt. More likely it's a failure in the script, attributed to Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. They just can't seem to establish a consistently bantering tone between the stars. They might also want to re-examine their boring subplots involving Nick and his conventionally rebellious teenage daughter, a romance with a waitress that goes nowhere, and a relationship with a suicidal woman at the office. Meyers gets lost in these meanderings. The movie has none...
...character faces the audience at the beginning of a play and starts narrating the story--it's the most overused device in modern theater, a refuge for authors who find it easier to tell rather than dramatize. But when Jane Eyre, the heroine of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel, presents herself at the start of a Broadway show and addresses the "gentle audience," it is oddly refreshing. It promises something we rarely see in theater these days: old-fashioned, Victorian, what-happens-next? storytelling...
...What are you going to say to your kids when they start to curse...