I gave the pots an occasional quarter turn to keep the stalks growing straight.
YM, published by Gruner & Jahr, has run occasional quarter-page ads for breast-enhancement tablets in the past, but the new editor, Annemarie Iverson, and publisher, Laura McEwen, who both came aboard last year, decided to refuse the ads.
At 58, he is still slender and eagle-faced, much as the singer was in his Capitol Records heyday in the 1960s, but he has none of the singer's Rat Pack swagger or the occasional quarter-to-3-in-the-morning melancholy.
THE three-tiered Bethesda Fountain, which stands 26 feet high and is surmounted by the Angel of the Waters, has Frisbees on the top tier and the occasional quarter -- people flip them up there as a game and the money is too high for the homeless to retrieve.
In any case, economic growth often jumps around, and there is nothing unusual in the occasional sluggish quarter.
But along with these heart-rending flashes comes the occasional phrase turned a quarter rotation too far, or a sentence that defies easy comprehension.
And Kerry, in the NBC interview, made it clear: We're going to continue to press forward, notwithstanding these occasional comments from one quarter or another, which I don't just let get in the way of the process.
High-powered microscopes have been scanning Federer for the last 12 days at the US Open, searching for hairline cracks in his confidence, and there were occasional moments in his quarter-final against James Blake when perfection was sullied.
It also means that the compromises and judgments reserved in many families for the occasional holiday or close-quarters vacation are constant: Warren and Jen think that May and Ben sometimes favor Elijah over their other children; May thinks her brother gives his children too much candy.
It's not unlike a performance in a subway car, considering the cramped quarters and the occasional sound of a train rumbling beneath the floor.
