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...house in the Square, they should move to a more plausible course of action. They rejected the idea of using the funds to buy a yacht instead due to rumors that Sabliere Society was purchasing a small raft. "They won't exactly be making waves," Winston said, nose upturned...
Last week, in a nauseating New York Times Magazine accolade, Michael Lewis thanked his high school coach for teaching him “What it Means to Be a Man” by breaking his nose with a baseball. Lewis learned the hard way that a man’s life is a battle and that he has to constantly “go to war” to win. And while his method of learning may have been unorthodox, the actual lessons—don’t be a girl, suck it up, and act tough?...
...only smile when people claim that a shooting war with Iraq was unnecessary because containment was working. Saddam thumbed his nose at the U.S. and the U.N. for 12 years after Gulf War I. President Bush correctly judged that the time for talk was over. He applied the long-overdue muscle that the U.N. lacked the will to apply. Charles H. Eypper Berlin...
...average of 3,820 words per story. The shortest piece was the first, an introduction to the scope and aims of the enterprise. That came in under 2,000 words. The pieces averaged about 2,500 words for the first few months, then just grew like Pinocchio?s nose. The longest column was on a dozen films made from Woolrich novels and stories. That one (it was the second of two Woolrich pieces - I do get carried away) ran more than 7,600, and I fear that, somewhere off in cyberspace, it?s still running...
...written most of the legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very little humor and seems quite unaware of anything except the development of his own evident talents." His assessment of Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, whom he directed in Twelfth Night in 1955, is typically memorable: "He is a born autocrat and must always...