In one's head as in the surrounding building, things speed up in the ultimate hours and can become, to say the least, frenetic.
And then, on another level entirely, there is this – the most audacious of showstoppers, with every single element of the series locking together to make for the ultimate darkest hour.
James Mahon explains why he moved to Wiltshire, some 80 miles away from his job in London while Belinda Aspinall from Life After London explains why the ultimate home is an hour away by train.
Voltaggio tends to order the biscuits with maple-sausage gravy and foie gras: the ultimate wee-hours, Denny's-style binge.
At Chanel, the cafe society ladies of the last pret-a-porter show were replaced by croupiers and gamblers at a casino, the ultimate after-hours haunt.
As an aspiring writer at the time, for me this episode was the ultimate one-hour lesson in dramatic writing: interweaving multiple story lines, everything ratcheted to maximum conflict and tension, our regular characters pushed to places that reveal new facets about them that we never knew, belly-laugh humor, dialogue that conjures Odets -- both street and almost poetic at the same time.
"In our hearts, we'd love to be Robin's character in the movie -- to be the ultimate father twelve hours a day, to stay home and play with the kids".
Every Monday night for the past eight television seasons, Jack has been for us what after last night he'll never be again: the ultimate man of the hour.
However, since our results demonstrate that goal-directed behavior is able to terminate habitual behavior (i.e., hour 2 compared to hour 1), the ultimate determinant of relapse may be a goal-directed action.
Then there is Graeme Obree, a former cycling legend known as the Flying Scotsman who fought his depressive demons by breaking the hour record — the ultimate time trial — twice, once making two attempts within 24 hours.
