Word: editor
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...similar moment with Manny at the 1990 Telluride Film Festival, where he received a life achievement award that I was asked to present to him. I'd gotten to know him in the '70s when, as editor of Film Comment magazine, I'd run some of the last pieces he'd write in a 35-year spell of movie criticism, before he devoted full time to his art work and teaching at the University of California, San Diego. So I was aware that this Arizona native could be as courtly as a ranchhand in church; also that he wasn...
...earliest film critics to create a coherent and eloquent body of work, was reviewing for the New Republic. "When Ferguson went off to the Coast Guard at the beginning of the war and was destroyed by a Nazi bomb, I immediately wrote a letter to the editor saying that I could do the job very well." He recommended himself for the film job over art criticism because, "doing movies, I would be in print every week. Doing painting I would be in once a month. I was getting $40 or $50 an article and that wouldn't be sufficient...
...editor Larry Smith, who founded Smith magazine and signs his e-mails "Big hair, big heart, big hurry," says the collection was inspired by a six-word story Ernest Hemingway allegedly produced on a dare: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn...
...house prices cool--and more young people stop assuming that buying is out of reach--there will probably be more co-hos. "Once I started talking about it, I had people saying, 'Maybe I could go in with you,'" says Catesby Holmes, 26, a travel editor in New York City who is shopping for an apartment with two friends. "I thought, This is going to be a 10-person house. I had to say 'Maybe you should find your own.'" Or, rather, find one with a friend...
...That's no mean feat. "How do you win a war that is militarily unwinnable?" asked Laurent Joffrin, editor of the left-leaning daily Libération in an editorial Wednesday. "Obviously pulling out would be the worst of all outcomes. But the solution can only be political, even if that requires military supremacy. The courage of soldiers demands the intelligence of politicians...