But, personally, and not having re-watched "Cheers" recently, I recall Long's Diane as a tremendously anxiety-provoking character — the butt of the show's jokes as much, if not more, than she was its heroine.
As I recalled recently on my blog, I covered the 1995 Kobe earthquake that killed more than 6,000 people, and I looked everywhere for an example of people looting merchandise from one of the many shops with shattered windows.
"When I watched it again recently," Fontana recalled, "I noticed that all the women in the movie have cameras.
She wrote a column about this on the FT recently (great read as I recall), but admits that her early research was discouraging.
I recall one recently married fisherman boasting that his new wife had been married six times; this, he explained with a sly wink, meant she was experienced.
I recall traveling recently and watching from my hotel room a CNBC reporter interviewing Indra Nooyi, CEO of Pepsi, and asking her how she manages being a CEO of a top global company and also being a mom.
As she recalled recently, "I just couldn't believe that they owned a house".
"Shortly after that," Mr. Lockwood recalled recently, "I started getting visits - one from the New York Fire Department and two from the F.B.I".
When the Post's television editor, Adam Buckman, sat down to write a column on Letterman that week, having no interview to work with, he recalled recently, "I thought, Why don't I be the first one to write about the decline of this show?
When Randi asked for help one day last month, Ms. Vanible recalled recently, "I told her, 'Mommy doesn't know how to do it.' " After encountering more than one homework question she could not answer, Ms. Vanible, 37, used a loan from a credit union to enroll Randi and two of her other children in a tutoring program Saturdays at City College in Manhattan.
