Word: writes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What are your specific plans for the near future? I'm writing a new movie which is the first thing I've written since Garden State (2004). I haven't really had time. That was another reason to part from Scrubs is that I really wanted to write and make more films and I hadn't had a chance to do that. And also meeting on certain films to direct things I haven't necessarily written. What I'd really like to do is make another movie because I really enjoyed...
...million card accounts, sending the total down by 58 million since the peak in July 2008 to 380 million." Banks will not be lending to consumers as long as there are no solid and sustained signs of an economic recovery. They cannot afford the risk after all of the write-offs they have already taken. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...doesn't write e-mails or - perish the thought - use a BlackBerry or iPhone. Indeed, the Prince of Wales still deploys a fountain pen to scratch out letters and instructions of such calligraphic idiosyncrasy that they are collectively known in the royal household as "black spider memos." Yet despite appearances, the heir to Britain's throne is not insensible to the power of technology. A campaign to save the rain forests launched by the Prince on Tuesday is based on a 90-sec. film that he hopes will go "viral" and relies on state-of-the-art software and Internet...
...Academically, he received a broad education, participating in one of Harvard’s first poetry workshops and immersing himself in the work of Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Joan Miró in a class on 20th century art. Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don’t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something...
...that he’s retired from teaching at the various university writing programs where he taught in the ’70s and ’80s, Ashbery’s daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs...