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...that advertising executives are, media recession or no, still members of that platinum-clad NBC demographic: the "West Wing" and "Law & Order" booths were by far the most crowded with photograph seekers. And to answer your most pressing question of all: there were, alas, no little chicken kabobs, dear reader. The highlight by far was the barbecued pork in mini blue-corn-tortilla shells. The sliced steak, however, was a touch overcooked, but the ad buyers, NBC staff and journos lined up for it anyway, chewing poorly executed red meat - that emblematic food of the long stock boom...
...context. And, anyway, most people stop being themselves and start acting if they discover that the third eye is on them. Once "captured," an image can be bent again. I know a newspaper snapper whose moody scene of a desert under a full moon was challenged by an astute reader: my friend had moved the moon to enhance his shot ... and turned it upside down. This decades ago in a darkroom, when computer tricks like morphing were unheard...
...them out, five years later, with a French passport and a new identity. In Tomorrow to Be Brave, Travers recounts her service with the Free France Legionnaires in North Africa during World War II (the other half of the Legion remained loyal to the Vichy government). She takes the reader on an unforgettable voyage as she discovers her two great passions: an ambitious, married officer and the Foreign Legion itself...
...skeptics among you took an especially dim if not downright hostile view of our reporting on Jerusalem at the time of Jesus. "A healthy percentage of your readers probably couldn't care less what Jesus saw or did," griped a Kansan. "Report on Jerusalem today, and leave the theology to someone else." "How nice to have news of the upcoming holiday!" a Wisconsin reader said sarcastically. "If Jesus is on the cover, and it's snowing outside, it must be Christmas. If it's raining, it must be Easter." And a man from Ohio wrote, "Jesus may sell magazines...
...said, the novel is a translation of Nat’s thoughts; Styron firmly believes that all authors are translators, especially those writing historical novels. When questioned about who he is targeting with his “translation,” Styron answered “the common reader.” He then defended himself by saying that it is difficult for any writer to characterize how people in the past thought and spoke...