Word: workaday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is a deal like almost any other, isn't it? So what would Tom do if he were confronting a clever, intractable opponent across a workaday bargaining table? Why, storm out of the room of course, shouting that the negotiations were concluded. In this case Tom goes on television and angrily informs the kidnappers that he is going to post the $2 million as a reward for their apprehension...
Brown is a wonderfully understated Albert Einstein in his suave argyle sweater vest and white lab coat, enunciating phrases like "workaday wedding" and "wonderful witticism" with a charming Teutonic lisp. DeLima overacts deliberately, and is spot-on, portraying Retton as if she were on crack, which is the only way to portray...
...decade with the nonprofit Institute for the Future has consulted for everyone from the U.S. Defense Department to a Swedish online service, prefers to distinguish between "visionaries" like Negroponte--"people who have a vision of what the future should be and are trying to make it happen"--and workaday "forecasters" like himself. "My job is to help our clients expand their perceived range of possibilities," Saffo says. Of course, in that capacity, he acknowledges, "you can affect outcomes...
...quit being an attorney to enjoy my treasure fully. Would Clinton send a message to women led astray by strident feminists that it is O.K. to be "just a mom" for at least part of your life? And would she experience the delightful relief of leaving the stressful workaday (or political) world for the truly enriching and rewarding world of motherhood? Go for it, Hillary, and good luck! BONNIE PACKER Palo Alto, California Via E-mail...
...glamour of TV news. But Up Close and Personal is The Way We Were Hollywood version. Long before its ending (or rather, the endings--there must be six or seven of them, all superfluous to the main plot), the film has become a rosy yet pale dreamscape of real workaday life. It's like the Windsong commercial on the nightly news, between the Bosnia coverage and the story about the beauty queen who found...