Word: hemingway
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...going to narrate another book on tape? I just finished, actually, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. This particular one didn't go as well as the editor hoped, I'm sure, because I was very phlegmy. I had an allergy for three whole days. So the poor editor is going to have to edit out three or four hours of [throat clearing...
...machines-elegant, superbly efficient, made to fit the human hand. I now think it entirely possible that the American gunsmith John Moses Browning "sitteth," as his admirers say, "at the right hand of God." Shooting for sport isn't, as I once thought, the desperate outlet of sad Hemingway types, but a fiendishly difficult art. As Peter, a former naval officer, says, "It's got all the Zen you could want." Trying to hit a bullseye smaller than a saucer from a distance of 100 m or more-and do it over and over again-demands things...
...weighed down by the past. In the case of a film thesis, it’s not hard to break new ground. It’s more like a biology thesis. You don’t get to do that if you want to study Fitzgerald or Hemingway,” he says. Polonsky started out fascinated by Berkeley’s sequences, but found himself doing research about its legacy in the 1960s and after. In the end, the thesis “wasn’t about a specific film or what Busby Berkeley was doing...
...time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders of giants (if it’s fair to put author Megan McCafferty in the company of Hemingway and Proust).Word on the street is that Kaavya is somewhat of a hip-hop aficionado, so it’s possible she was merely adding her name to a long list of “samplers” in rap history. From its roots in Jamaican reggae...
...Ernest Hemingway was so embittered by his experiences in Hollywood that he formulated what might be called Hemingway's Rule for Dealing with the Celluloid Bastards: Drive your car up to the California state line. Take your manuscript out of the car. Make them throw the money across first. Toss them the manuscript, get back in the car and drive back east as fast...