A day before the event, the president, still nervous, told her to cut the fireworks display to five minutes, from 10. "The man who was setting off the fireworks didn't quite understand or else he decided to make it more spectacular by putting the same amount of dynamite into five minutes because we'd paid for it," she said.
NBC, which holds the exclusive broadcasting rights to the Olympics in the United States, cut the commemorative display and replaced it with an interview with swimmer Michael Phelps, stirring a Twitter-storm of British protest — "rude and disrespectful on so many levels," as tweeter Tamsin Wood was quoted by The Daily Mail as saying.
PLAYER'S GUESS Although this looks like an eye in an earring box, near the knife that cut the eye out, displayed on a picnic table, in fact, the photographer has done an interesting thing with scale.
The channel then cut the broadcast and displayed an off-screen title card.
The notion that a production car easily found on the freeway might cut into the display line doesn't hold much appeal.
It will also outline powers to enable telephone companies to cut the lines of numbers displayed.
Not until she studied in the science-writing program at the University of California-Santa Cruz, she said, did she realize, "Hey, I can say what I actually mean!" One of the early modules of her class is called "Cut the Clutter," where she displays one bad sentence after another, then red-pencils her way to concision and clarity.
Six or so varieties of fish, domestic and imported, are on display daily, cut the Japanese way by the chefs at the sushi bar.
Apple also introduced a $1,299, 20-inch flat-screen monitor and cut the prices of two other displays for the Power Mac computers by as much as 43percentt.
After the Eagles rushed out in the second half and cut the deficit to 37-27, Zavackas displayed the pure-shooting stroke he employs when he is not mucking it up underneath the basket.
