"I look at what I did as a healthy outlet, appropriate for the time. There was a moment in this town when drugs and alcohol were very socially acceptable. I got to live, explore, try. I don't need to take the edge off reality anymore. I don't always like reality, it isn't ...
In the course of nine hours of private questioning, Blumenthal was made to testify about advice he had given to Clinton while she was secretary of state. It was a Super Bowl of conspiracists as the committee’s chairman, South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy, sought to find the most ...
“There is no bigger lie than a half-truth,” he later told me. Scruggs knew Wigand had few close friends, and was concerned about his growing isolated. Wigand had shut himself in his bedroom for 16 hours. He believed he would lose his job because of The Washington Post. Later, ...
Another cat I had used to get drunk regularly every day. She would hang about for hours outside the cellar door for the purpose of sneaking in on the first opportunity and lapping up the drippings from the beer-cask. I do not mention this habit of hers in praise of the species, but ...
or pokes the fire with unnecessary violence. Without some outlet, the anger caused by the ever-occurring troubles of life is apt to rankle and fester within. The petty annoyance, instead of being thrown from us, sits down beside us and becomes a sorrow, and the little offense is brooded...
Kelly's mandate for Magic² Venture Partners was to raise a pool of money to invest in companies and "provide Michael an outlet for other ventures he wanted to pursue," Kelly told me. She lined up as advisory executives Kathleen Kennedy, a co-producer of many of Steven Spielberg's films...
Arena Group employees received an email from HR earlier this month informing them that “holiday happy hours” had been canceled. “We will host a party after our company achieves break-even/profitability,” the email said. The day before that email was sent, Bhargava held a virtual town ...
She expressed skepticism toward Vanity Fair as the best outlet for an article on Jack. “When you did a story on me,” she said, her posture upright and uptight, “I don’t think I was treated fairly. So why should Jack expect to be treated differently?” She fixed her gaze on ...
But also to have my own creative outlet, even if it’s silly needlework and stuff like that. To have that high-functioning fulfillment, and to have that radiate into my children so that I’m there with them, I’m connected with them, and I’m with Danny and we’re all together, ...
(“I was a little insulted because it implied that I couldn’t support our family.”) His stream-of-consciousness posts, which Amy edited, were mocked on Twitter, an outlet that O’Rourke criticizes as “mean.”“No human, least of all me, is strong enough to completely withstand the ...