Fill in the gaps or finish the sentences. 1)Bernie: Two days after a black kid is killed in a neighbouring community two white businessmen named Hanson and MacGregor get shot up
1)Bernie: Two days after a black kid is killed in a neighbouring community two white businessmen named Hanson and MacGregor get shot up, with racial epithets written on their car. Now the “New York Sun” decides to run a parking story.
Alicia: Keighley called me at 7:00 this morning.
Bernie: Yeah, I’ll bet he did. Metro, I …………………… we’re all over the subway.
Henry: Three pieces. A tick-tock, list of injured, search for heroes. Standard transportation wreck ………….
Bernie: We got any art?
Joe: Yeah. Eddie picked up some nice spaghetti shots.
Bernie: Did they find the motorman yet?
Henry: Yeah, drunker than a skunk in his neighbourhood bar.
Alicia: Oh, God, he derails his train and ………………………………………………………. to have a few beers?
Henry: What do you do after you …………………………………………………?
Alicia: I have a cigarette and go to sleep.
Henry: Here you go. We got an above-average bank robbery in the Bronx. That’s good. An exploding hand grenade in Hoboken.
Bernie: What about something fun? Don’t we have anything fun today?
Henry: Nazis marching in New Jersey.
Bernie: Nazis are a barrel of laughs. Features.
Carl: We got Alison’s profile of the teenage hit man. We got Grace finally done with that Hollywood ……………………………………………… chart and part three in our continuing saga on penile implants.
Henry: By the way, could we possibly get another dick drawing? It looks like a map of Florida. It also looks like, I think, the 5th at Shinnecock Country Club, doesn’t it? I would play over the water,
……………………………….., as a suggestion.
Bernie: All right. Business.
Jerry: Dow’s up. Trade figures came out at 8:00, Nothing shocking. But I’m telling you, I’m …………………… Watergate out there on Staten Island with the zoning commission thing. If you guys could just give me a couple of city-side reporters--
Bernie: Wait. How is it possible that you always have Watergate somewhere?
Jerry: Listen, I’m--………………… off, Carl! I mean it this time. I got a ………………. from the commission
chairman’s ex-wife and she’s plenty ready to talk.
Anna: His ex-wife?
Jerry: His first ex-wife.
Bernie: There’s a ……………………. source. Yeah. Foreign.
Anna: Terrorists blew up a restaurant in Paris, killing five. None from New York. Ferry boat capsized in the Philippines, drowning. None from New York. There was a violent coup in Bahrain.
All: None from New York!
Anna: Witnessed! Witnessed by two people from Long Island. Oh, Henry, this might interest you. —
Henry: What’s that?
Anna: The mother whale in the Ukraine had triplets.
Henry: She told me she was on the pill!
Bernie: All right. So, page one, subway sounds like our ………………………, right?
Henry: I don’t think so. I don’t think so. You know, TV’s gonna be all over it. They already are. It’s a minor derailment. And Carmen has got great day two stuff on the Williamsburg murders. If they make a bust, we have to follow upon that.
Alicia: The subway’s a major story.
Anna: Nobody died.
Copy guy: Somebody got …………………………………….
Alicia: Yeah, that helps.
Henry: Minor derailment.
Alicia: All I’m saying is people got maimed, and we have pictures of it.
Henry: Goddam it! So we fucked up yesterday! Why do you want to tuck our tail between our legs and take it for and do what everybody else does? Let’s stand alone. Let’s …………………………………
Alicia: We’re a ………………………… paper. People want the subway.
Henry: Are you market research all of a sudden? Not everything is about money.
Alicia: It is when you almost fold every six months.
2) Bladden: I’ve been reading “the Sun” these past few weeks. L find it ……………….. We’re thinking of letting our hair down a little bit around here. ………………… in some coverage of the outer boroughs. Nothing new for you, of course, but for us, well, we’re “The Sentinel”. We cover the world.
Henry: Right. So I’ve heard.
Biadden: I won’t dick around with you. I talked with Vince last night. He’ll go with my recommendation. So congratulations. The job is yours if you want it.
Henry: Thank you.
Gladden: You don’t look …………………………………………
Henry: No— You know, I’m gonna have to think about that. I have to talk to my wife, You understand. Gladden: Yes, of course. But I would like a decision first thing in the morning. And don’t disappoint me. I
think you’re a serious ………………………………….., Henry.
Henry: Thank you.
Gladden: No, I mean it. You guys have got a cute little paper. Sometimes you really pull one out.
Henry: Thanks. It is a cute paper.
Gladden: You kind of ……………………………………………. on that one last night, though.
Henry: Yeah.
Gladden: I want to tell you, before I came over to this job I ………………. had any administrative experience at all. I had very minimal …………………………….skills.
Henry: Excuse me. I’m curious. For instance what would our-- your Metro ……………. be tomorrow?
Gladden: Henry, you don’t work here yet.
Henry: You’re right. You’re right. Sorry.
Bladden: As I was saying about this book, I think it’s something that you...
Henry: You know what I’d go with? Subway. Don’t you think?
Bladden: …would find enjoyable.
Henry: You know, though that Williamsburg thing is pretty interesting. You guys got anything on that? You do, don’t you? It’s funny. You can always tell, one newspaperman to another-- You can just tell there’s something. What have you got? What do you guys have …………………..? Come on. They make a bust? No, I’d know if they made a bust. What are you guys sitting on?
Bladden: Let’s just say that our coverage will be comprehensive.
Henry: Got you. Comprehensive. I understand. Anyway, I’d love to ……………………………it.
3) Bernie: For God’s sake, Alicia, you’re the ………………………………of the sixth largest paper in the country.
Alicia: All I want is to be …………………….compensated.
Bernie: You can’t come in here every six months.
Alicia: I have other ……………….Don’t make me …………………………………………….
Bernie: Does this have to be today? Do we have to do this today?
Alicia: I have pressures-- real pressures.
Bernie: I see. Pressures. I know you loved ………………………. I know Keighley shoved you into this.
Alicia: I never knew how …………………it was gonna be. There are not exactly a lot of laughs around my office these days.
Bernie: You’re in management. If everybody loved you, you’d be doing something wrong. But the fact is,
I think you’re …………………………..miracles with the job.
Alicia: Exactly. I have 300 people doing the work they need 750 for over at “Newsday.”
Bernie: I know. Thank you. But there’s no more money for you. There’s a ceiling in this business, and
you’re …………………………………….on it.
Alicia: Okay. Fine. My contract’s …………. in 18 months. I’d like permission to start interviewing now. You leave me no choice. That contract leaves me no choice.
Bernie: Pardon me saying this, and I know I’m no one to talk but the problem isn’t with your contract. It really isn’t. No ……………………….
Answer the questions.
1. Who had an argument at the staff meeting?
2. What did they discuss there?
3. What foreign news was offered by the old lady? Why didn’t the stuff like it?
4. Why did they decide to choose subway piece as their major story?
5. Why did Bernie ask them to wrap it up early?
6. Why had Paul Bladden been reading the "Sun" those past few weeks?
7. In what way did The Sentinel plan to let their hair down a little bit around there?
8. How did Henry get the job at “The Sentinel”?
9. What’s the main difference between “The Sentinel” and “The Sun”?
4. What did Paul Bladden decide to introduce in “The Sentinel” from “The Sun”?
5. What did Paul Bladden say about “The Sun”?
6. What did Henry try to learn from Paul Bladden?
7. What happened with young Afro-Americans in their flat?
8. Did Bernie try to talk to his daughter on the phone?
9. What was the talk between Alicia and Bernie about?
10. What story did Bernie tell Alicia? And why?