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...writer coping with a house style and deadline fatigue, but also fighting to get his say and his way and frequently winning. His advocacy of neo-realism, of storytelling efficiency, of teeming termite life in the corners of the film frame, and his excoriation of fussiness, bloviation, "artistic" movies, ring clear, as does his unique voice. Dozens of passages here could have been written only by Manny. I don't say his Time columns were near his best stuff, but a lot of it is choice...
...outcome parameters can be as nebulous as "satisfaction" or "discomfort" - but in these cases, when numbers are assigned to subjective experience (e.g., "my discomfort level is now three out of 10") and plugged into an algebraic formula, they produce "rational" or "evidence-based" conclusions, which suddenly have the ring of scientific truth. As far as the evidence-based movement is concerned, heeding mere "expert opinion," from even the most successful clinician, would be akin to taking the word of a bearded man with a wand...
Darnton relies on gentle satire to evoke the many ironies in newspapering and even his seemingly throwaway descriptions of news situations ring utterly true. The ancient pressroom at City Hall looks like "a crowded Mayan ruin littered with the detritus of tourists." The relentless questions rained on a journalist writing a page-one story on deadline is an experience "like getting nibbled to death by ducks...
...nontraditional materials, like those of the 1992 Albertville medals, which were mostly glass. Summer medals, however, almost always depict Nike, the winged goddess of victory, on their front in some fashion. Since 1972, host cities have designed the medals' back. This year Beijing represented Chinese culture with a ring of jade inlay...
...served almost 10 years in the U.S. Air Force, I am well aware that the U.S. is a target [Aug. 4]. While reading "Postcard: Cheyenne Mountain," I was deeply disturbed that Obama has vowed "to remove U.S. weapons from launch-ready status if elected." Imagine two boxers in a ring, one with his hands tied. Ryan Girardot, CLINTON TOWNSHIP, MICH...