"We only had about a million dollars and 23 days to film," he said, speaking from his office in Los Angeles.

He spoke last week from his office in Connecticut.

"Here, I wanted to capture the spirit of the 18th century," he said, speaking by phone from his office in Paris.

He spoke to the woman from Mah's office again and asked her to get a message to Wu.

He spoke by telephone from his office in Montgomery, Ala.

He spoke from his empty office, with no audience to enliven the presentation.

Upshaw, speaking from his office in Washington, said he had known Waters.

Speaking from his office, he said that his home phone had been drifting in and out for the last day or so.

The father was speaking from his office in Annapolis, where he has remained as yet another staff has departed.

"I would be in the middle of it all, here, if there were any truth to it," he said, speaking from his office.