Tag: writing
member name: Jack E.
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May 30, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
The man with no middle name - or whose middle name we dare not mention - has done it again.
He keeps coming up with these whoppers and still, we believe. We believe him. In Barack Obama we trust. . . .
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February 26, 2008 12:06 PM EST --
It's like I always say, as long as there are women there's going to be trouble. (Of course I don't mean you, sweetheart.)
Adam started it all when he said, "The woman made me do it," . . .
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July 24, 2008 07:40 PM EDT --
IF IT'S THURSDAY IT MUST BE BERLIN
He could have saved himself the trouble and given the same speech in Berlin, New Jersey. It's what we in the writing business call an "evergreen," . . .
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June 13, 2008 02:23 PM EDT --
From the beginning, Barack Obama has mesmerized the multitudes with his chant, YES WE CAN!
His worshipful millions dutifully provide the chorus--
YES WE CAN!
Therefore, can we say that Obama . . .
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July 11, 2008 03:43 PM EDT --
Couch potatoes know what I'm talking about. There are you are, flopped on the couch or in bed, and up comes a movie you've seen a hundred times and what you're going to do is, you're going . . .
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March 05, 2008 12:03 PM EST --
When does fact trespass into fiction? I don't know. I can't vouch for every word in a memoir I wrote several years ago.
In "Escape From Mount Moriah," 18 sketches of what it means . . .
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March 11, 2008 08:47 AM EDT --
Call me clueless (and I'm sure you will) but this business of Super Delegates is news to me. What's next, Super Duper Delegates?
I first heard the term several months ago, around the time of . . .
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March 18, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
Crossroads: 1969 (N/A) John W. Cassell traveled to Europe in search of America and to understand this it helps to be a Child of the 60s -though in a sense we are all Children of the . . .
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April 14, 2008 06:00 PM EDT --
Yes this is a quagmire and yes this is Vietnam all over again.
I sure don't have the answer but our leaders, beginning with Bush and Condi, that's what they get paid for and they have no answer, . . .
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March 02, 2008 04:30 PM EST --
Finally, years ago, I got a positive response from a literary agent in Manhattan. He said, "Come on over. We'll talk."
I asked what floor he was on. "We're on the 26 th floor." . . .
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March 07, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
Michiko Kakutani hated it, Jonathan Lethem loved it, and both read the same book and reviewed it days apart in the New York Times. How often does this happen? Almost every time. The critics, our culture . . .
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March 13, 2008 02:46 PM EDT --
Indecent Proposal
I'm still shocked and amazed. But as I said before, as long as there are women there's going to be trouble. Ousted New York governor Eliot Spitzer proves . . .
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March 20, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
That Mother Teresa suffered a "crisis of faith" came as no surprise to me. People who attain high levels of spirituality are most vulnerable to such attacks.
It is a paradox. Yet I don't . . .
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March 30, 2008 08:14 PM EDT --
Stop The Presses! Now It Can Be Revealed! Men and Women are different.
Last night, watching Jeopardy together as we usually do, my wife said - "Why do men have to win? Why is it always about winning?" . . .
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April 09, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
The best part of writing is the writing itself. After that comes the publishing and if the writer survives that, here come the reviews.
Book reviews are supposed to be about the book, not the author, . . .
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May 01, 2008 06:00 PM EDT --
The War on Terror is over, finished. Courtesy of a ruling, or "guidelines," by our government, federal agencies are to refrain from using such words as "jihad" in identifying, well, . . .
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May 13, 2008 11:47 AM EDT --
Last night I watched the two-hour documentary on FDR on my local PBS outlet (WHYY, I think it is) and was impressed, so impressed that it hurts me to knock public programming. PBS offers many other specials . . .
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June 10, 2008 11:45 AM EDT --
Big Brown never had a chance in the Belmont -- and another Triple Crown contender bites the dust.
Kent Desormeaux, his jockey, gave him the worst ride in a big race since 1957, when Bill Shoemaker . . .
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July 07, 2008 12:41 PM EDT --
Here's a glance at what's playing on commercial TV, prime time: "The Bachelorette" and "Nashville Star" and "Celebrity Family Feud" and "American Gladiators" . . .
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August 10, 2008 07:10 PM EDT --
I've already lost three friends for mocking the "Opening Ceremonies" for these 2008 Summer Olympics, saying, as I did, that I can get the same cartwheels, pyrotechnics and all the rest of . . .
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