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Subject:Re: another bad manuscript From:Laura Lemay <lemay -at- DEATH -dot- KALEIDA -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 2 Aug 1994 09:28:52 +0800
> "It's a challenging course full of uphill climbs and downhill
> descents."
> "And he will finish as far ahead of the field as they are behind
> him."
Hey! I remember those! That was a particularly *good* year for
Tour de France broadcasting. :)
My quotable gaffe -- one day I was waxing philosophical about deadlines
and actually getting the amount of work we had to do done in the amount of
time we had. I noted:
"You're always done with *something.* The trick is getting people
to change thier expectations of what you have to do."
