He was in the War Office in London during the blitz and spent many nights as a watcher on the roof of St Paul's Cathedral looking for incendiaries, an experience which gave him a particular affinity with that building.
A history and politics buff, as well as an assiduous watcher of quality drama, especially that featuring his peers and near-peers, Freeman cites a 2001 HBO/BBC film about the Wannsee Conference, the 1942 board meeting at which the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jews.
There, for the next five months, in a 7-by-7-foot "steel and glass room immaculately designed to attract lightning," he spent his days as "a professional watcher of mountains," "a sensei of the sedentary," "an aristocrat of sky," which is to say as a lookout in the employ of the United States Fire Service -- the U.S. Fire Circus, he now prefers to call it.
As a keen watcher of Pretty Little Liars, and a full on lover of the relationship between Aria and her English teacher Ezra, this is the type of story that really enthrals me!
The picture of Mr. Mubarak, 84, that has started to emerge from their comments — as a zealous watcher of the protests and the orchestrator of the crackdown — seems to contradict accounts by lawyers for the deposed president that he did not authorize the repression or know about the deaths.
Crucially, this means building coalitions with non-Jews as well, as any watcher of FOX News can see.
SPORTSFRIDAY, PAGE D1 Fake Newsman, Real Host Jon Stewart, the anchor of Comedy Central's fake news show, has been asked to be the host of the Academy Awards on March 5. "As an avid watcher of the Oscars," he said, "I can't help but be a little disappointed with the choice".
The announcement on Sunday confirmed reports that had trickled out late last week, as close watchers of Internet traffic began to detect a more direct Internet path of Netflix videos to Comcast customers.
As a customer, and a close watcher of retail behavior and mere anecdotal evidence, I venture that might have something to do with their inability to come to grips with when they need staff in the day and the week, and when they don't - it creates a lot of uncertainty and stress for employees.
I know it's important to be a good reader of books; but it's quite as important to be a good watcher of movies, and the contempt with which the audio-visual is held in the educational establishment is a pretty good predictor of a generation's mediocre viewing tastes and habits.
