Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then shouted to photographers, "Did you get that picture? Did you get that on film?" That act was reminiscent of the time last year when Bosket plunged a makeshift 11- in. knife into the chest of a guard, in full view of a newspaper reporter Bosket had enlisted to write his life story. The guard was critically injured but recovered. "Sensationalism sells newspapers," the baby-faced butcher blithely explains, "and the system responds to violence...
Levi was a professional chemist, manager of a paint factory in Turin until he retired at 58 to write, and so he writes from a scientific perspective and with a scientist's precision. But he was also a humanist, a lover of poetry, and these brief essays demonstrate the remarkable range of his interests, from children's games to the genius of Rabelais to the dissatisfactions of playing chess against a computer to the question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum...
...toughest stories I had to write was when men's tennis Co-Captain Bill Stanley was dismissed...
...only written about three tennis stories when this happened. The last thing I wanted to do was get the team mad at me. It was a story I didn't necessarily want to write, but it was something...
Luckily Stanley and the team thought the story was fair. It was still the toughest story I have ever had to write...