“The fact that we didn’t write our own music, which really shouldn’t affect our chances, hurt us, I think,” he told Forbes.“We discovered some great writers - we had been around for a while, as A&R guys, etc. That’s the thing. They looked at us as doing other people’s...
“If good, a president gets reelected. If not, he loses,” ___ Boak reported from Baltimore. Barrow reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Tamara Lush in St. Petersburg, Fla., Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pa. and Alan Fram in Washington contributed to this report....
Irrelevance—since the reference point of most individual games is remote and statistical—always threatens its interest, which can be maintained not by the occasional heroics that sportswriters feed upon but by players who always care; who care, that is to say, about themselves and their art. ...
What Hassan cared about was being around the action, whether it was with musicians, artists or writers. He found his way there as a driver and as man with a reputation for locating whatever was needed to keep a party going. “Hassan was always the guy who would facilitat...
She had done her best with my sister and me—raising us by herself. The simple truth was there just was never enough money. But that didn't stop her from filling us with dreams. "You can be anything you want to be," she would tell us. "Politicians, dancers, writers—you just ...
Mr.Handsome2007-5-126: 34 AM Orion Books, which decides there is a market in creating cut-down classics (经典著作), is slimming down some novels by such great writers as L. Tolstoy, M. Mitchell and C. Bronte. Now, each of them has been whittled down to about 400 pages by cutting...
The cottages, built between 1895 and 1906 during a Bohemian movement that brought writers and artists to La Jolla for solitude and inspiration, have been caught in a legislative thicket for more than three years. In 1981, the city designated the colony historically significant, thwarting La Jolla...
but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts—had gone equally to oblivion; and that, moreover, without serving a purpose in their day, as these heaped-up papers had, and—saddest of all—without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which th...
Thus, it was these great modern writers who shaped Bellow's consciousness as a young man and greatly influenced the theme and style of his first two novels, Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947). But even then Bellow began to break with modernism. When The Adventure of Augie March ...
She had done her best with my sister and me—raising us by herself. The simple truth was there just was never enough money. But that didn't stop her from filling us with dreams. "You can be anything you want to be," she would tell us. "Politicians, dancers, writers—you just ...