Money is like an eel in the hand —Welsh proverb Money is like a sixth sense, and you can’t make use of the other five without it —W. Somerset Maugham,New York Times Magazine,October 18, 1958 Public money is like holy water: every one helps himself to it —Italian proverb ...
characters to be flawed: as The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum has argued, Carrie Bradshaw was an antihero on the level of Tony Soprano and Walter White, only instead of killing people and selling drugs, she cheated on good guys, slept with bad ones, and used it all as magazine-column ...
Although, as her Wikipedia page puts it, Kerr “is largely unknown to contemporary readers and her books are long out of print,” she had ten novels to her name by the time she was enlisted to work on this project and was a frequent contributor of magazine fiction. In theory, The Woman...
They both must have read the American Boy magazine, and The Adventures of Frank Merriwell, and the works of the late Ralph Henry Barbour. They both must have learned not to lie, and not to go back on the crowd. No matter who you might be, you were exposed to certain precepts of cond...
Lucky is the necessary shopping magazine with the best looks, the best buys.and the best trends before they hit the stores.But what makes really unique is all the detailed information you’ll get on how to buy the goods you’ll find.Lucky provides you with 800 numbers, web site addresses...
There are so many people who made theTerminal Citystory happen, hundreds really, and if I can’t name them all, I’m not going to try aside from Dave, Josie Ochej for without whom it never would have started, and my brother Graeme for without whom it would not have had its second ...
She is the author of gorgeous books like What If This were Enough and How to Be a Person in the World. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. Oh, my gosh, Heather, I have been waiting ...
to buy her gowns and hats, rewarding them with political favors. When she blew her four-year budget for White House renovations in under a year, she contrived several plots to secretly defray her debt. In one instance, she persuaded the White House gardener to sell manure from the stables ...
You don’t, to put it bluntly. This is why you have as big a net as possible. You want to send out to as many magazines as you can. It’s a lot like playing the lottery. Even though your chances are absurdly high, it doesn’t hurt to buy a few more tickets. ...
Everything has a story, even things so silly that they have “silly” right in their name. Such is the case with Silly Putty. In 1949, a jazz-loving cool cat from New Haven invested $147 he didn’t have to buy the rights to a weird, bouncy substance – and he ended up 25 years...