Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME first wrote about Marshall Applewhite and his group in 1975. Four years later the magazine interviewed Paul Groll, a follower of Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then known as Bo and Peep), for a story in the Aug. 27, 1979, issue on their secret camp. An excerpt...
...comes to the tabloids. One such publication blew the lid off his high-powered job as Clinton's chief political strategist when it published photos of him having strategic sessions with a woman who was clearly not his wife--or another consultant. And now a tabloid has published excerpts from his new book, Behind the Oval Office, thus helping wipe out his chances of having a magazine pay to excerpt it. Morris opens the book with an apology to his wife, President Clinton and Al Gore (in that order) and then proceeds to say how important he was to Clinton...
...Lehrer excerpt...
While some of his stories do have a definite narrative line, others are complete nonsense. The majority of his work, as in the following excerpt from "The Object Lesson," is a combination of the two: "At twilight, however, no message had come from the asylum, so the others retired to the kiosk, only to discover the cakes iced a peculiar shade of green...
...half, the audience listened enthralled as Kingston discussed the issues of boundaries, homes and belonging, all the while embellishing her lecture with many quotes from her books. Her innovative literary forms, and her obvious attention to descriptive detail, make her works accessible and easily appreciated by all. The first excerpt she quoted opened with this passage from her most famous book, The Women Warrior: "In the midnight unsteadiness we were back at the laundry, and my mother was sitting on an orange crate sorting dirty clothes into mountains -- a sheet mountain, a white shirt mountain, a dark shirt mountain...