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...accompanies. There isn’t any magic formula for composing one; writing headlines will always require journalists to make news judgments about what is most important in the day’s events. And because the headline is the first—and sometimes the only—text a reader will see, those judgments will often influence how readers perceive an article or the issue it covers. No newspaper gets the product right every time, but the process of composing headlines can often help to clarify the day’s news—even for the writers...
...none of these asides appears in the published text (as printed in "The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter"). Like so many of the "ad libs" in the "Road" movies, these were doubtless carefully devised by Bing and his writing team. But the point was never that the gags should be spontaneous; it was that they should seem spontaneous - the little inspiration that springs from conviviality, a modernist, ironic commentary on trivial proceedings, a way to keep the performers fresh and make the audience believe they were in on a verbal jam session - improvs that achieve a casual perfection. And that...
...hope my inference is clear. The A’s go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B’s go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i’s.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz’s fallacies with their mothers. They often...
...Millions of his countrymen and -women do. And fad or art form, the text message is entering the realm of popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...Dubbed as the first fad of the 21st century, text messaging is not entirely new. Teenagers have long sought secret ways of communicating with each other. And for people as a whole, says Jay Jasanoff, chair of the linguistics department at Harvard University, "English language and English literature will neither stand nor fall by the use of wassup, ruup4it or even a happy face...