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...traded by Fortune for a features writer and an editor to be named later. I got off like a house afire - cover stories, features, business news, plane crashes, you name it. But in middle of the '99 season the managing editor pulled me aside for a little talk. I knew what was coming. "Your story starts are down," he said. "And your cliché count is out of sight. " I reminded the boss that I had led the league in snappy adjectives the year before. And early in the '99 season I'd hurt my right index finger trying desperately...
...exhausting. For both “Debaters” and “Antwone Fisher,” Washington says he had to take prominent roles in order to acquire enough money to finance the films. Nevertheless, he maintained a positive attitude about acting.“Once I knew I was going to be in the movie, I was like, ‘Just embrace it. Go with it.’ I don’t waste a lot of time on my own performance, just three or four takes and keep moving.” Three...
...quoted material. Which brings us to our next point... (3) Outsourcing his metaphors Now, we all know that T-Fried is the king of the pithy-and-possibly-wildly-inaccurate aphorism. But he really dropped the ball this year! He cited his best metaphors as being from people he knew instead of making them up himself. A prime example from Dec. 2: “I prefer the term ‘global weirding,’ coined by Hunter Lovins.” Sure, he did write some of his own, but they were...
...know more today than we did last Friday about the past. And last Friday we knew more about the past than any other human civilization that’s ever existed on the face of the earth,” McCormick said...
...Clinton. At one point, he even refused to say whether he would endorse her if she won the Democratic nomination. "I am surprised at just how angry John has become," said his former Senate colleague Chris Dodd, another presidential contender. "This is not the same John Edwards I once knew." Some of his former supporters feel the same way. Frank Best had originally signed up to lead Edwards' campaign in Louisa County, Iowa, but has since switched to Barack Obama, saying "Edwards just doesn't have the same campaign he had four years...