Sure enough, he got his secretary to make us each a mug of coffee and we reflected on old times before I glided effortlessly into my coaching sales pitch, slipping in important buzzwords such as "transformational leadership", "employee engagement" and, although I feel slightly embarrassed at the recollection, "talent management".
In the final scenes, a disoriented and dying Mike was found wandering the streets by Ken, and as Ken cradled Mike in his arms, the rivals talked about old times before Mike died, signifying the end of their 20-year feud.
"Back in the old time, before the humans," he would begin, "this girl, the river, she didn't stop her life where she does now, at the mouth at bay there.
But for old times' sake, before the last RX-8 left the press fleet, I took a last spin in the only production car powered by a triangular rotor that whirls within the combustion chamber — the "spinning Dorito," in owners' parlance.
In this strangely directionless time before New Year's Day when an uneasy ceasefire on food, fizz and football bingeing takes hold it is traditional to ruminate on the passing year – once more, for old times' sake – before plunging into stupor and failed resolutions.
And Peter May, reluctantly batting at five for a Cambridge Past and Present side (Barber, Prideaux, Majid Khan, Dexter, May, Brearley for a top six), turning back the clock by flicking an Oxford student dismissively through square leg, as if for old times' sake before falling to dear old Wingfield Digby's medium wobblers.
It seemed just like old times, back before the antitrust cloud obscured Microsoft's future, and the software giant routinely exceeded expectations and pulled the broader market up with it.
I just wanted to take the ride for old times' sake, before the bridge made the ferry ride optional.
"I'd walked past that old building dozens of times before," he said.
GUSSOW -- In London and other cities, you've acted in many of your plays before: "Old Times," "No Man's Land," "The Collection".
Hip-hop has "discovered" old or forgotten singers many times before; each time the new artist gets an unexpected sound, the original source gets an encore moment in the spotlight, and everybody gets more work.
