Word: writes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...said she had thought "long and hard" before accepting the high-profile job, and gave the final say to her 13-year-old daughter. Her response? "She said, 'Yes mummy, there's never been a woman.'" Now Duffy, who once said "no self-respecting poet" should have to write about royal weddings (she was referring to the 1999 union between Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones) will be expected to do exactly that, in a role that requires her to write poems for royal events, funerals and various state occasions...
...There are many translations of those first two lines, and this is not the one Jarmusch provided - but due to my inability to write fast enough in the dark, I'm using that of Wallace Fowlie, an authority on French poetry. Fowlie, who died in 1998, devoted entire semesters of teaching at Duke University to Dante and Proust, which sounds like serious stuff, but he was noted for his fine sense of humor. I have no doubt that, confronted with The Limits of Control, he would have offered a fresh translation, "As I was going down that impassive narrative...
...that allows free long-distance calls over the Internet. eBay paid $2.6 billion for Skype four years ago because it believed the free voice operator would mesh well with its auction business. It didn't. Now eBay is spinning off Skype in an IPO, after taking a $1.4 billion write-down. Still, Skype is profitable and growing, and it rolled out an Apple iPhone app, much to the consternation of carriers everywhere...
...pleased that Stein has the courage to write about his feelings about the "violent tribal custom" of circumcision, but I do not understand why he cannot stand up to his wife and why he would do something that he is "pretty sure is wrong." Please, Mr. Stein, do not do it! Nobody has the right to make such a decision for another human being. Vincent Favata, ELMWOOD PARK...
...Perhaps the most accurate portion (not for FlyBy but for at least one of his roommates), "I love getting up in 4:30am and going to class until 7:00 at night then having to write papers and study for Spanish. It's awesome...