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...talk about. Disabuse me of my ignorance! Don’t let me get away with anything,’” Colbert said. “Be real—that’s the best thing you can do.’” He remarked that only “about half” of the interviewees successfully meet that challenge. He also said that his “most challenging” BKAD interview was one he conducted with Rep. Barney Frank ’61, D-Mass., in October 2005. During the interview...
...childhood was happy and contented. The son of a doctor with the London Missionary Society, Peake was born in Kuling, China, in 1911 and lived there until he was 11 years old. As a boy, he learned 600 basic Mandarin characters from a Chinese calligrapher, causing later observers to remark on the strange way he held his pen. After his family returned to England, Peake finished his education at Croydon School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools...
...audience laughed at that remark, he looked to the crowd and said, “And it’s hilarious to me that you think that’s a joke...
...Bond observes that Vesper’s “beauty is a problem” and that she “overcompensates by wearing slightly masculine clothing.” She counters with a postulation about Bond’s lower-class background, and finishes with the aforementioned remark about the shallow nature of his sexual proclivities. Is this Fleming, or Freudian Analysis...
...exalted status of the latter self-assumed), whereas there is considerable and vivid promise extended by the protrusion of a soft sail, a furred white triangle—what that same observer would with private amusement (and a mental note to repeat at the first available social occasion) remark as the dog-eared appearance of a dog’s ear—from the lap-held purse of the same esteemed professor, who herself is just now remarking how much the first tuning exertions of an orchestra—seeking A—recall the agitation...