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...Probably his most fascinating—and simplest—story is that of the Rembrandt. After robbing the Woolworth family estate in Maine, Connor found himself in trouble. A friend, John Regan of the Massachusetts State Police, made a throwaway quip that Connor took a little too seriously. “John said to me ‘Myles, to get you out of this situation, it’ll take a Rembrandt,’” Connor recalls...
...middle class those who are now clinging to its bottom rung? Only if you define middle class as being able to buy a ton of peripheral stuff for next to nothing. What I think will happen is we'll see the ancillary kinds of junk - like throwaway furniture and gobs of plastic kitchen gadgets - fade out of our lives. The middle class will still have access to what truly makes life good: a comfortable home (but not a huge home), good education, flowing information on the Internet and gainful employment...
...Brown Eyed Girl" I didn't perform for a long time because for me it was like a throwaway song. I've got about 300 other songs I think are better than that...
Take political coverage, for instance. Candidates must take especial care when uttering anything in a public forum; the efficiency with which throwaway statements are enlarged, diagrammed, and deconstructed would do the academy proud. Barack Obama’s reference in front of an Iowa crowd last year to the rising price of arugula (as opposed, one imagines, to iceberg lettuce or a nice thick T-bone) was touted by many as proof of his elitist disconnect from middle America. The official comment that John McCain was “aware of the Internet” was neatly transfigured into...
...LeBron James threw his massive elbow into my puny chest. Did he really just say what I think he said? During a June interview for TIME's Olympic preview issue, I asked James if he could guarantee that the United States would win gold in Beijing. It was a throwaway question, a standard strategy sports journalists employ to see if an athlete will prematurely pump his chest. Sure, guarantees get overblown, but they do say a lot about an athlete. He or she is confident, even cocky, and willing to put a reputation on the line. Thing is, most athletes...