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Several years ago, noted baritone and TIME subscriber Robert Goulet wrote a fan letter--on gold-embossed stationery--to my friend and fellow writer Joel Stein. Soon after, a trip to Las Vegas was booked, with Joel graciously bringing me along to dine with Robert and his wife Vera beneath Picassos at the Bellagio. There were stories about Richard Burton and Ed Sullivan, choruses of Camelot and a few empty bottles. More Goulet dinners followed, each one unforgettable in its own way. Robert was famous for almost 50 years. He got the best tables and told great stories about people...
...proposals, discussed at a meeting yesterday of the Committee on House Life (CHL), would apply to all non-private parties affiliated with Houses, with the exception of Stein Clubs...
...Phony Friendship Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilarious and true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion - it's a great procrastination tool - but it serves mainly to allow streams of self-important updates from people who are not true friends, and to make users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their own. Elizabeth Findel, Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
...occasional experiment like Oasis (a "brilliant songwriting band"). "I'm a very boring person," he insists. He doesn't go to movies, he says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most of his spare time reading--most recently Janet Malcolm's biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. His chief recreational passion is trout fishing, which he does four or five times a year, usually in Hampshire, England, but with periodic ventures to more exotic climes like New Mexico and Wyoming...
...sort of a let down. But non-beer drinkers have it even worse. Imagine being veg and going to a party to toss ping pong balls into cups of ground beef, or doing a handstand over a keg of steak, or entering a lottery to win a stein of foie gras. It’s simply outrageous...