Word: pens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...foes alike have worked themselves into a speculative lather in recent weeks over the contents of Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Now that the book's Nov. 17 release has answered those questions, just one mystery remains: how the heck did the former Alaska governor pen the 413-page tome in just four months...
...when I pick up my editing pen, I still maintain “health care” for the noun and “health-care” for the adjective. In other words, I cling to the old rules, even as my progressive personal philosophy knows that they’re inevitably being squeezed...
...photograph of the late, great, Ted Kennedy surely doesn't do him justice. This study of a seemingly bewildered and disillusioned man does not reflect the positive and dedicated humanitarian he became. The photograph inside the magazine of the passionate politician, in full flow with word and fist and pen, would have been a far more graphic final reminder of what we have lost. Ted Williamson, EAGLESHAM, SCOTLAND...
...laws is that it can never buy taste, here is where it went after it failed, and here’s what it brought instead,” writes Lethem of Manhattan. The narrative flow, dictated almost entirely by Chase—save for a few exceedingly emotive letters penned by his spacey fiancée and a few events that occur on the periphery of his story—is dimpled with beautifully concise and vivid encapsulations of the utterly mundane and the extraordinary alike.The letters Janice writes to Chase, for example, as the length of her space stay...
...Instead I found myself thinking of those man-on-the-street interviews Sex and the City used during its first season, in which men copped to their hideous dating practices, seemingly for the sole purpose of churning up female disgust. It is difficult to imagine David Foster Wallace putting pen to paper with that intent...