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...House List: Pf-air. The Pf-open list is a pf-orum for pfohosers to add a "pf" in pf-ront of every pf-reaking word that begins with an "f." We get it. "Pfoho" has a silent "p." Not that pf-ucking pf-unny after the pf-irst pf-ifty times...
This new status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...
Greenhouse’s joke caused the audience to erupt in laughter for several seconds, while Ginsburg smiled and remained silent...
...handle and threw it back. But the music had stopped. And the heads were bowing. And I was left there, at the brink of the congregation. I should have gone in. It would have been real easy—no one looking and me sneaking in on silent toes. But I’d never seen our sanctuary like this: churchgoers stacked pew after pew, heads down, bodies fixed. Here and there husbands had arms around wives. Mothers had hands around the necks of their little miscreants. And after the “Amen,” smatterings of conversation...
...fans' curiosity, desire for completeness and appetite for more works from a silent pen are often no match for a writer's desire for privacy - especially when he or she isn't around anymore to argue. Next week will see the release of a previously unpublished story by Mark Twain, almost a century dead; it will be followed by next month's Who is Mark Twain, a collection of 24 formerly unseen essays and short stories. Long-lost novels by Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace and Vladimir Nabokov are scheduled to see the light of day in coming years...