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Adams agreed with the sentiment but did not think the recommendation was feasible. Congress at that time was in no mood to spend money for a fleet. Jefferson, however, never let the subject drop. In 1787 he approached Jones, who was down on his luck in Paris, out of work and having woman troubles as usual. Would Jones be interested in a job offer from Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, who Jefferson happened to know was looking for an admiral? That admiral's task would be to clear out the Turkish fleet from the Black Sea, on Russia...
...says, "giving a story as much length and breathing space as it needs to be told, which usually means slowing down the narrative, [including] a lot of silent space - panels that aren't necessary to move the story along but are necessary just to create the right mood for what you're doing." Papers fly down empty streets. A typewriter sits on a desk. People go by; things go by. Seth creates the elegiac atmosphere of an apocryphal, slow-paced past. He does it like no other comix artist, and the effect feels akin to taking a warm bath...
...latest contribution to Clinton lore: his 957-page memoirs, titled simply My Life. It is a comfortable room--a plasma TV, couches and rocking chairs, walls lined with Native American paintings and pottery ("We've been collecting it for 30 years," he said)--and Clinton seemed in a comfortable mood as he sat down to be interviewed by TIME Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and me. The former President was dressed formally, in a blue suit, white shirt and pink tie, but he spoke easily and often quite candidly about his successes and failures. The purpose was to sell books...
...turn bad when outsiders see the film and start dishing. (The outsiders are almost never critics. We've been out of the power equation for ages.) Tabloid headlines play a role too. When the stars are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and the film is Gigli, the anticipatory mood can quickly sour from must-see to buzz...
...humor. I think he could tell stories all day without repeating himself--a joy for people with him, but he also made use of it politically. If things got a little heated and tense, he would break the tension with a story. By the time he ended, the mood would have changed, and they got on with the business with no rancor...