January 2011
82 posts
According to a Western official with knowledge of... →
For his part, Mr. Ross, the chief executive of the... →
Dear Diary:
While waiting for the next shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central, I notice an ad for an international bank. The billboard shows a Joe Six-Pack type on his recliner in front of the television, can of beer in hand, but has an ecological theme. The caption reads, “Recycling one can saves enough energy to power a television for three hours.”
Directly below the caption, four...
He is a son of Barbara Carroll of Boca Raton,... →
But I’m afraid the C.F.D.A., while wanting to act... →
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Maybe the vignette about the time she and her... →
…Until, that is, you start reading the book and realize that Shawn’s parents — his father was William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker — had his twin, Mary, institutionalized when she was 8, and that, psychic twinship or not, Allen Shawn doesn’t really know a thing about her.
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In interviews, some lawmakers, particularly... →
Just a reminder: very long comments (rough rule is... →
“You can eat a lot of currywurst without getting... →
“I’ve been on the receiving end of several of... →
simple day dresses in double ivory crepe with... →
I was next to Hilary Alexander, from The Daily... →
...the once-chic fitness chain Crunch in the... →
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John Fairchild had just come back from Paris to... →
I did not come here tonight to surprise you or... →
…It’s like what they say about finding a man in the great State of Alaska: the odds are good, but the goods are odd. That’s another example of a sentence you can put together that way.
“I regret some of my behavior,” Mr. Blasberg said.... →
dead the funeral
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he drove a flossy teal Suburban his senior year of... →
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Bild‘s Kai Diekmann, the interviewer, mentioned... →
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“Directing
“Black Swan” Darren Aronofsky
“The Fighter” David O. Russell
“The...”
– toss-up
There was a filmmaker, a writer, the wife of a... →
“On the evening of Monday, Feb. 1, Katie Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News,...”
– knife-twisting 101
Leaning back in his chair, a striped woolen scarf... →
He’s not especially curious about his own bio-pic,... →
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In fact, Cosmopolitan, the popular Hearst monthly... →
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Reporters are people, and people are thin skinned,... →
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“Hi Zeke,
The Original Condom Company has just launched within the USA – the...”
– comma splice is sort of an ominous thing to have in a condom pitch.
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you would read town & country if you had an avid... →
[We learned subsequently that Mr. Silva has now... →
The vast majority of men (and it was almost all... →
"The guy is like, 'You gotta understand, I've just... →