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...there I was in Crystal City, Mo., on an overcast fall day in 1999, listening to a candidate I believed in, a candidate I had actually signed up to work for, a candidate who was uttering words I had helped write, and yet some magnetic force was keeping my palms apart. Old habits die hard, but, hey, I wasn't a journalist anymore, and I put my hands together...
...Irving. As Wolfe explains, these are his three stooges. The chapter is hilarious, self-serving, and provocative; Wolfe uses his three stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel (a case he has, not incidentally, made before). Novelists like Updike, Mailer and Irving, says Wolfe, write books that only other novelists of the same mistaken convictions would enjoy; more likely than not their most recent work "sank like a stone" from the public's interest. And yet they complain that there is a crisis in the health of the American novel, that nobody likes to read...
...beginning to write something on what's called the Street Crimes Unit, which is an elite wing of the New York Police Department, who are hand picked. They number only about a hundred. They're almost all exclusively WASPs. There are a few who are not. And they pick people every year, cadets, who "have the eyes." And what that means is that they can watch you walk down the street, cross the street, and judging from your gait, if it's weighted to one side even slightly, they can see if you're packing a weapon, a concealed weapon...
...virtually every genre. His tight schedule forces him to compose in his limited free time. "Because I'm on the road all the time, I compose in airplanes, hotel lobbies, bathrooms, you name it. I'm not one of those who has been able to sit at home and write." Schuller's beautifully crafted works have been played by some of the finest performers and orchestras in the world. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Of Reminiscences and Reflections, and his early work, Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee , is a classic...
...industrial interests, he has become famous for statements such as "we don't have any evidence that [global warming] is a serious problem." On the basis of his own climate model, Lindzen has so far argued that CO2 does not contribute to global warming. Now, however, he helped write one chapter of the 1000-page assessment, and was recently quoted as saying that "there has to be a human component to the change that's under...