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...that he’s retired from teaching at the various university writing programs where he taught in the ’70s and ’80s, Ashbery’s daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs...
...terrific break for me, because David Letterman basically said to me the first time I was on the show, I think you're terrific, and any time you have a set ready, come on. Just come on the show. So I think I did it 25 times through the '80s and early...
...Perhaps the most influential work in this field was done by Daniel Kahneman and the late Amos Tversky in the 1970s and '80s. The partners developed a number of experiments that proved even smart people will arrive at wrong answers to fairly simple questions, depending on how information is presented to them. In one example, they told test subjects about a woman named Linda, who "is 31 years old, single, outspoken, and very bright." They added that Linda "majored in philosophy," "was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination" and "participated in anti-nuclear demonstrations...
...share that detail? Because it's the truth. This is not about some writer hearing it out of someone's mouth. This is about what I experienced myself. Am I proud of it? No. It's nothing to be bragging about. It was how the game was in the 80s...
Filching from the '80s body-switch parables Peggy Sue Got Married and Big in ways that are by turns perplexing, annoying and endearing, 17 Again has lessons in tow: that kids will take fatherly advice only from another teen, that a life full of compromises and defeats is still worth cherishing and that Efron can nail a tearful public declaration of hopeless love with the assurance of a young Tom Hanks. He said he wanted to act, and now he has - pretty well...