| 单词 | anecdote |
| 例句 | “I shall use this anecdote in my book.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was the first boyfriend in whom I confided about my family—really confided, the truth and not just amusing anecdotes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Joaquin nodded, suddenly aware that he had maybe picked the wrong anecdote to tell Maya. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They are as obsolete as the old anecdotes in which they played their puzzling, ambiguous roles, and we have no more need for the beasts than for the stories. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He hinted about Cassius Clay a couple of times, and when I responded only with anecdotes about my interview with Clay, he finally asked what Clay had said of him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect of one of Leon’s anecdotes was to make his listener warm to humankind and its failings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z An off-color anecdote, a laugh in the wrong place. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the headline “Teach the Books, Touch the Heart,” she began with an anecdote about teaching John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It seemed everyone had a funny anecdote to share or a touching memory of a loved one. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In fact, neither the well-worn anecdote about a disenchanted Beethoven ‘scratching out’ the title page of his symphony bearing a dedication to Napoleon, nor the composer’s musical radicalism are quite what they seem. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z My father was sharing some anecdotes and holding forth on his opinion of the situation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm sorry if these anecdotes make you angry. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If we had more time, then he’d already know all my little anecdotes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Corinthians listened analytically, expectantly—wondering how her mother would develop this anecdote into a situation in which Macon would either lash out at her verbally or hit her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to do except to offer second helpings, which Ector would accept without interrupting the anecdote of the moment. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It can only be defined by the anecdote, the chance encounter or the sentence overheard. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And that’s just a starter anecdote. I have enough for a book.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z On one holiday visit, he was hanging out with old friends, telling them some anecdote about school, when a strange look suddenly clouded his friends’ eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We often pass the time amusing ourselves with anecdotes about you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z People made up jokes and anecdotes about him that were the talk of the town. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The afternoon wore on with more anecdotes about illustrious wizards Slughorn had taught, all of whom had been delighted to join what he called the “Slug Club” at Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They spoke of Europe, of books, of anecdotes from Blanca’s family, or of Jean’s voyages. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a Mad Hatter character to the Adams-Rush correspondence, as both men swapped stories and shared anecdotes in a kind of “Adams and Rush in Wonderland” mode. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He avoids any anecdote or symbolism that might limit us to a single interpretation. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life, he managed to link those didactic anecdotes with a reality he could see. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “In all gatherings he at once became the center of attraction, having a ready command of language and a constant fund of amusing anecdotes and experiences.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Anyway he related long pointless anecdotes of his undergraduate days, speaking familiarly of dead and departed professors by their first names, usually incorrect ones. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of all my letters, all those memories and clever anecdotes, gone into the ether. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I probably have about an hour until dinner, which means an hour of trying to spin my school day into a string of hilarious anecdotes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Chrissie eagerly took up the subject and soon both veterans were coming out with anecdotes about all the hilarious things Martin had got up to. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The most wistful, tender anecdotes generally were told on days when some incident had touched him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in the intimacy of their bedroom, Blanca told her anecdotes about him and taught her his songs, warning her not to hum them in the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the radio anecdotes about Marilyn and watched the activity across the street and down the block, where someone had opened a hydrant and children squealed in and out of the rushing water. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He had anecdotes, too, cautionary tales for the blacked-out drinker: There was a guy in New Jersey who got drunk at a fourth of July party. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z An anecdote that Benjamin Rush, the Philadelphia physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, liked to tell in his old age makes the point memorably. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z What you will conclude from the next anecdote I cannot guess. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Giiiika recounted anecdotes about her own early experiences in America, as though they were all filled with subtle wisdom that Ifemelu would need. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He was known for anecdotes, and parables from Syria, quotations from the Qur’an, stories from his travels around the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I did not put aside my sloth for the sake of a few amusing anecdotes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really don’t know why I bored you with this trivial anecdote.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It will be a tiny, odd fact about him, an anecdote, perhaps, for a future dinner party. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Our heads were filled with rules and anecdotes, but we lacked any real knowledge of how to perform the job that was ours as of today. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him the same anecdotes I told you today, with the bullies and Uncle Phil, and Todd and his hair. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then has a funny anecdote about the perils of the Capitol showers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The laughs are separated by ever longer passages of anecdote and observation. Ivor Dembina | Comedy review 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z There's something about the combination of tragedy and comedy in the Reynolds anecdote which seems to epitomize the work of Paul Thomas Anderson at large. Comedies in serious clothing: an introduction to the films of Paul Thomas Anderson 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z For each one, Unger gives the political and personal context, and he employs choice biographical anecdotes to bring the artist to life. ‘A Life in Six Masterpieces’ provides insightful perspective on Michelangelo But worse were those whose accidental proximity to events – a fan, a cop, a reporter – had blessed them with a gold anecdote for life. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z Mr. Caine is a charming raconteur, specializing in anecdotes packed with famous names. Books of The Times: What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa 2010-10-24T21:54:00Z As she describes her flight from city to city, the people she encountered live again in brief flickers of too-often-tragic anecdote. Her Francophilia Saved Her From the Death Camps, but Not From Great Danger 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z If someone is talking about cake, it’s always, “Here is the funny 10-minute cake anecdote.” I’m beginning to find my husband’s humour a turnoff 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Amazing how that once felt like the ultimate White House low point, yet now resembles a rarefied olde worlde anecdote you might read about Calvin Coolidge. The Mooch makes the move into his natural habitat – late-night television 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z That doesn’t count as a good catch but a short-lived anecdote. I love my partner but he says he doesn’t love me back | Mariella Frostrup 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z There is prescient meaning in every anecdote Brockenbrough includes, down to the poem Donald wrote in elementary school: “I like to hear the crowd give cheers, so loud and noisy to my ears.” A Trump Biography for Teens Is a New Lens on the President’s Totalizing Awfulness 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Those stories are true, although minor inconsistencies and factual inaccuracies suggest that some of Gregory’s other vivid anecdotes might not be. Review | André Gregory’s ‘This Is Not My Memoir’ is a free-form monologue about his quest for meaning in life and art 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z I thought of this anecdote while watching “Out of Blue,” which, its end credits do tell us, was adapted from Martin Amis’s 1997 novel, “Night Train.” ‘Out of Blue’ Review: Seeking a Suspect in a Suspect Adaptation 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Still, a feeling of levity permeated the full house, even during the tenderest, most reflective tunes like “The Mother” or “Party of One,” thanks to the folksy charmer’s lyrical wit and between-song anecdotes. Brandi Carlile, in high spirits, delights hometown crowd at Seattle’s Moore Theatre 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Instead, I made a story out of it, preserved it as an anecdote to illustrate Pinter's sudden and inexplicable rages. Whangee, crook or derby? I have entered the world of the walking stick 2012-10-05T21:30:01Z This sentiment goes a ways to explaining Mr. Stanfield’s singular allure, but it doesn’t go all the way, because no anecdote ever could. Lakeith Stanfield Is Playing Us All 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Per the Hollywood Reporter, he will answer questions about comedy and guide the remaining five contestants by “sharing personal stories and anecdotes about his experience as a comedian while also giving career advice.” Jay Leno, next “Last Comic Standing” mentor, is nailing this retirement thing 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Even now, eight years later, it’s hard for me to write about that time, painful to reduce it to an anecdote. Motherlode Blog: Fighting the Overprotective Impulse 2011-10-31T19:15:52Z Some of these guys are great; Anthony Bourdain, conversational, engaging, told anecdotes, took questions. Charlie Sheen and the vaguest shows on earth 2011-03-30T20:55:00Z Mr Chapman’s World Cup anecdotes reveal a quaint, even naive, event. The time of their lives 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z This may seem like a strange anecdote to include in a book called “Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture.” In 'Uproot,' Jace Clayton takes a worldwide tour of the digital underground 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Brandt brought considerable cachet because of his wealth of inside knowledge and endless array of anecdotes. Listen Up: SiriusXM NFL Radio 10 years old 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Burpo, in his Sunday sermons, had already introduced some anecdotes to his congregation. Boy?s Tale of Heaven Is Publishing Phenomenon 2011-03-11T12:25:34Z The media-on-media scramble, a kind of Russian nesting doll of reportage, attested to both the profound import of the Milley anecdote and the cultural heat of the new syllabus of Trump books. The media scramble at the heart of Trump Book Summer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z It's hard to tell if it's a parable or an anecdote drawn from life; either way, it strikes a chord. Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z As soon as the show, which is directed by Artem Yatsunov, broaches an interesting subject or brings up a colorful anecdote, it flits to another. Review: Hopscotching Between Worlds in ‘My Dear Brooklyn’ 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Brown did his best, responding with anecdotes from his own life and youth in Brooklyn and speaking of issues in his own community. Evidence, ODC and Urban Bush Women Dance for Diplomacy 2010-03-20T03:34:00Z He calls it "a little stroll down memory lane," with anecdotes, stills, clips and humor. After playing on-screen dad to Molly, Helen and Julia, Paul Dooley gets to play himself 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z One show, several tones: a blend of humour and fact-finding, anecdote and investigation. The Ira Glass / This American Life way of reporting the news 2013-06-23T18:30:03Z She started talking to Colbert with a little anecdote about how paparazzi are now following her and her family around. Megyn Kelly, vulnerable and terrifying: Why Donald Trump should be scared of tonight’s big interview 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Yet Material World provides almost no anecdotes about George’s pre-Beatle life, other than that he went to the same Dickensian boys’ school as Paul McCartney. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z While cinema managers are relaying anecdotes of King's Speech customers saying they had not been to the cinema in over a decade, plexes are also reporting disappointing returns at concession stands. The King's Speech: it's a box office phenomenon ? so why are popcorn sales down? 2011-01-18T15:06:45Z How deftly the poem shifts from anecdote to the world of knowledge and consequences. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore - review 2012-07-20T21:55:04Z Awarded a point for each anecdote correctly identified as true or false, Macron and the YouTubing duo ended up tied with four points each. With tall Trump tale, Macron plays to France’s young voters 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z “I remember one Halloween, when everybody was still alive,” one woman begins an anecdote about lost friends. | 'The Grove': ?The Grove,? for World AIDS Day on PBS ? Review 2011-11-30T22:21:08Z Tóibín takes a personal approach to biographical discovery, dovetailing reminiscences of his own Dublin days with anecdotes about his subjects. Review | For famous writers, father didn’t always know best, but he provided plenty of inspiration 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Hedwig's performance is a musical autobiography, and through anecdote and song, her life story is grippingly revealed. 'Annie' with a bad attitude: 'Hedwig' rocks the Pantages 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But my experience with sexism and harassment does not merely exist in a few anecdotes—it is interwoven with my entire reality as a person. Never tell a woman to “smile”: An earnest plea to the good men to sit down, shut up and listen 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z And this is more than a personal anecdote. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Yet sometimes Dread halts an anecdote short of the payoff. ‘The Half That’s Never Been Told,’ by Doctor Dread 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z It comes replete with amusing anecdotes of some of the hazards of fieldwork, including a fungus infection he caught wearing a borrowed loin cloth. ‘Noble Savages’: fierce tribes and occupational hazards 2013-02-13T22:32:44Z "It's not an autobiography, but I tell anecdotes about my life from when I was a kid to now," she said. Janet Jackson performs at Essence in New Orleans 2010-07-02T15:30:00Z Her final anecdote was the most personal, and generated the loudest response. Even the Teen Vogue Writer Who Took on Trump Gets Stage Fright 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z An introductory film by Nancy Stevens, titled “A Love Fest,” relayed admiration from colleagues; a few choice anecdotes offered a glimpse into the daily dramas of running the Graham enterprise. Review: Young Dancers of Graham 2 Show Palpable Passion for the Legend 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z In a phone interview Mr. Bingham shed doubt on a famous anecdote according to which Maelzel sent 200 metronomes for free to as many composers. Ticktock as Taskmaster: A Show About Metronomes and Musical Time 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Patrick Lawlor delivers this very entertaining grab-bag of history, anecdote and fact in a nice, friendly voice in which we hear his own pleasure in the curiosities he lays before us. Review | Audiobooks for your summer travels 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The performances were interspersed with appreciative comments from the musicians about the help they received from Young Concert Artists and amusing anecdotes from Ms. Wadsworth about her protégés. Music Review: Celebrating 50 Years? Worth of Promising Talent 2011-02-21T23:03:25Z Readers also will enjoy the many side stories and anecdotes that Peirce includes. Add 'Big Nate' and other new hybrid books to kids' mix 2010-08-06T22:40:00Z Four or five years ago, if you asked someone about her book group, your ears were likely to be singed with anecdotes about the overconsumption of Pinot Grigio or various club members’ floundering marriages. Book Clubs Get Especially Clubby 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The anecdote illustrates Waltz’s dry humor and precise timing, as well as the way he envisions the best conversations: as impish dialectic. Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Then her father relates a series of anecdotes characterizing various people he’s treated. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Adams takes her time, making Beckett's mix of poetic quotation, humorous cliché and fractured anecdote her own. Beckett classic 'Happy Days' on superb ground at Boston Court 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z That sounds awful as an abstract anecdote, but then Margot learns that Caitlin actually told him, unsolicited, that she liked spanking. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z In an interview, Heimbach said his anecdotes were all about the same baby — one who died at his hospital, though he didn't know the child's name. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z What inspired you to use the turtles all the way down story — an anecdote that illustrates the problem with infinite regression — as a metaphor for Aza's struggle? John Green on Mental Illness and Writing a Book That Mirrors His Own Life 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z My own anecdote: My wife and I were off at an atheist conference in another town, and we were at a restaurant for dinner. Don’t trust the religious 2012-07-02T18:20:00Z The book is liberally peppered with personal anecdotes from Diamond's various expeditions. Review: Book sheds light on traditional societies 2013-01-07T20:16:03Z Her approach will be accessible to the pickiest readers, layering personal anecdotes with a visit to a gene-sequencing lab, heavy on compassion and light on jargon. The Best-Seller List Is a Smorgasbord 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Zak tries to distract the Germans, telling them an anecdote about Keith Moon, drummer for the Who, almost forgetting to smash the TV set before checking out of a hotel; they are unamused. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 2: Mugged by God 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Over the next few days, Smith created a survey and polled his audience, collecting anecdotes and answers and compiling them into charts and graphs. Motherlode: Daddy Discrimination 2011-01-28T21:00:39Z These were behaviors we gleaned from television characters and veiled anecdotes from our parents. Woodstock, a Utopia? Not for Every Generation 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z He brings to the subject a great depth of knowledge and a critical detachment that raises his writing way above the level of most rock band biography, usually a nightmare of unattributed anecdote and gush. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z In the last essay in the book, I mention the anecdote about the pool. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z While she plays a character named after herself, she said most of the musical’s anecdotes came from “a combination of truth and fiction, though some of them reflect my own dreams or aspirations.” Sherie Rene Scott?s Bumpy Road to Broadway 2010-04-24T02:34:00Z Shore giggled at the anecdote and said Michaels still quotes his father’s phrase as a sign-off from phone calls. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z It included an anecdote about a Garth Williams illustration and the barn whose inhabitants had inspired “Charlotte’s Web.” Garth Williams, Illustrator of American Childhood 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z That worthy aim, however, is frequently lost in a warehouse of anecdotes, quotations, digressions and references that are piled up but not analyzed in much depth. Books of The Times: Weak-Kneed Willpower Faces Temptation?s Lure 2010-12-30T21:50:25Z The novelist gave an unsurprising answer – that she felt no impediment about attempting this – illustrated with a surprising anecdote. Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z “His remarkable book distills his wisdom into memorable anecdotes and lessons, drawing from his life and career.” ArtsBeat Blog: Colin Powell Book Is Coming in May 2011-09-25T19:00:18Z Jay so loved this anecdote that “You Remember That?” became the working title of the memoir he never finished. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Brisk, entertaining and ingeniously organized, this survey of the history and meaning of street names around the world is stocked with intriguing anecdotes from the days of the Holy Roman Empire to modern Tehran. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Yet there's a bit more to the anecdote than flagging up the therapist's humility in the face of experience. The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – review 2013-01-27T07:01:24Z Wall’s eye for anecdote, in both present and past, is sharp. ‘The Ordinary Acrobat’: a daring young man’s circus obsession 2013-03-07T20:46:22Z Each chapter weaves together history, anecdotes, expert interviews and vocabulary lessons. Your Body Is a Wonderland 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Their passion is infectious, and as the Fantome anecdote shows, they know their way around Belgian beers, down to a brewer’s reputation. The Sovereign review: A deep dive into Belgian beers, with food to match 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z While Ms. Gall’s rich anecdotes from interviews with Afghan villagers, Taliban fighters and officials of many governments provide poignant realism to the book, they also highlight one of its few drawbacks. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z Schulz's meditation on error orchestrates anecdote, scholarship and research into fascinating new harmonies, and Romantic Moderns connects painters, writers, cooks and even florists into a wholly original reading of the English response to modernism. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z Noble thought this was hilarious and began using the anecdote in his set. Lee Ridley: making comedy out of silence 2012-06-06T17:26:50Z That means he delivers personal anecdotes with stealth punch lines that are sandwiched among original compositions. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z By midday, a reporter at New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog spotted a few more double-dips — anecdotes and examples reused in different stories — and everyone was off to the races. Jonah Lehrer’s male arrogance 2012-06-21T15:00:00Z Photos of the VJs' memorable interviews illustrate anecdotes and show off their big hair. `VJ' tells of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll at MTV 2013-05-06T14:52:10Z An often-repeated, possibly apocryphal anecdote holds that the police and the department of health visited Soutine’s studio after neighbors complained about the stench of rotting meat and the blood dripping through the floors. Art Review: Two Meaty Visions of Flesh and Blood 2011-05-12T21:55:51Z Now ruling the world from their nouveau Versailles, this army of civil servants jockeys tirelessly for position, for the teeny-tiniest anecdotes about People in Power. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Russell's is a whimsical anecdote about a little girl losing the angel's wings she needs for a school play and it reveals his background in dance and his Catholicism. Britain's best film directors show some early promise 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z Author Angela Kelly is personal adviser, curator and senior dresser to the queen, who gave permission for Kelly to share previously unreported anecdotes and images. Review | Attention ‘The Crown’ fanatics: Your royal education continues with these recent books 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Amiri’s wife, Amina, emerges as the film’s most arresting figure, sharing moving anecdotes and sharp, feminist critiques of the Black Power movement. ‘Why Is We Americans?’ Review: A Family Synonymous With Newark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Ribbing each other with anecdotes about how great the other is, they play as much from their new collaborative album, Come on Board, as from Lewis's work. Jeffrey Lewis ? review 2011-01-20T17:47:52Z It takes a while to really flow, though, even with Wallace amiably playing a feeble, aged Armstrong who slowly changes in his drab dressing room and gulps oxygen from a tank between anecdotes. Louis Armstrong play ‘Satchmo’ blasts into hot racial turf at Atlas in D.C. 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z The data supporting this shift is largely anecdotal, but the anecdotes are abundant. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The chicken story is just one in a legion of outrageous and riotous anecdotes from a man whose capacity for sex and drugs and rock'n'roll seems matched only by his capacity for kindness. Mike Myers: why I made a film about supermensch Shep Gordon 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Mandela and Archbishop Tutu serve as examples of ubuntu in many of her anecdotes, as they perform grand, healing gestures. Review | What is ‘ubuntu,’ and might it have influenced Meghan and Prince Harry’s Megxit? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z In explaining the group’s relevance, Judd told the anecdote of how a visiting producer on a movie she was doing came up to her and referred to a film they’d worked on years earlier. Embattled Time’s Up, post-Cuomo, announces a ‘major reset’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z I told a new friend about it recently and I realised it’s actually a pretty great anecdote. Experience: I was dumped an hour before my wedding 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Truths will be told, yes, and anecdotes recounted, but the attic and the cellar will also be raided, for funny hats and canned goods. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z His easy familiarity with the philosophical classics may leave some readers gasping for air, but he offers plenty of lifelines in the form of anecdotes, laddish jokes and inexhaustible references to popular culture. Less Than Nothing by Slavoj Žižek – review 2012-06-27T11:52:01Z "Out of Order: Stories From the History of the Supreme Court" is readable, accessible and full of riveting anecdotes, even if the level of detail may occasionally bore the casual reader. Former justice pens history book about the Court 2013-03-06T19:13:08Z It’s one of a handful of basic tenets we’ll learn by heart over the next few days, enlivened by Byron’s personal anecdotes and umpteen practical tips. A wilderness survival course leaves a novice camper hungry, cold and triumphant 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Calhoun offers marital anecdotes rich with the alternating warmth and pathos that typify a long-lasting union: When her husband discovers her on the floor sorting Playmobil pieces from Legos and asks “What are you doing?” For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “The period, the letters, the houses, the love affairs, the bloodlines,” she writes, “are private anecdotes one is happy to meet once or twice, but not again and again.” Life Lessons From the Bloomsbury Group’s Wardrobe 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z But she softens her stance through anecdote, relating how she moved from the mansion built by her late husband to a more modest abode, using the proceeds to devote herself to "matters I consider important." "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z Or Sky Saxon, a legend by dint of freaked-out anecdotes that crush the meagre number of decent Seeds songs. Shara Nelson: a rare talent who needs help not condemnation 2011-08-23T15:37:21Z Though he was prone to depression, and said that writing was a way of relieving his bleaker feelings, Mr. Storey had a wry sense of humor and enjoyed turning experience into anecdote. David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z This is an ebullient book, filled with anecdotes, triumphant laughter and asides delivered with perfect timing and an air of festivity. Review | Should celebrities narrate their audiobooks? Will Smith and Mel Brooks make the case for yes. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z His anecdotes spoke to his place in musical history. Richie Havens, my musical hero 2013-04-23T14:29:31Z She asks questions, points out cool details and shares entertaining anecdotes. Holiday Gift Books for Children 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Naturally, the jokes pretty much stop here, giving way to grim anecdotes about past abuses, like blow-torching pigs in order to study burn treatments. How Humans Can Coexist With Other Animals 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Much of “A Speck of Dust” continues in the same vein as the Barbie riff, with explicit imagery and anecdotes designed to expose the absurdity of American gender politics. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The book includes hilarious anecdotes about growing up in West Philadelphia, being a Black woman, dating and life after internet fame. Quinta Brunson’s Viral Fame Knows No Bounds 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z The show will feature live music, sneak-peek clips from the show's second season and anecdotes about the creation and inspiration of the show. 'Portlandia' to play Seattle ? live 2011-11-21T17:41:55Z This book is aimed at a mass audience, driven by anecdote and statistic, memoir and photograph, with all the giants of American history in their respective places. The American Past: A History of Contradictions 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z This is not an exhaustive list, and some of it lies in the realm of internet forums and anecdote. What science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for and how to treat it | Rose George 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Another anecdote from the day of Joe's death concerns an exchange between a policewoman and herself. Can a parent get over the death of a child? 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z Bruno chronicles his journey with constructive advice and helpful anecdotes. Get organized this year ? declutter! 2011-01-12T22:39:04Z Perhaps one of the most revealing anecdotes in the film is one that his high school buddy Josh Weinstein provides about Matt running for student body president. "Enemies of the State" director on the twisty new doc with "too many secrets still in the story" 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Brooks’s book is a work of sly pseudo-history composed of data and anecdote drawn from an eerily recognizable future world. Movie Review: ‘World War Z’ Stars Brad Pitt Battling Zombies 2013-06-20T22:55:53Z I’ve been the closet case with the stories of impending marriage and the invented anecdotes about old girlfriends. My students called me gay slurs and worse 2012-09-05T20:51:00Z “Each section is a honeycomb. Stories are nested in stories and crack open to reveal rumor and anecdote, prose poems, tendrils of myth.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Timothy Garton Ash recently relayed an anecdote about Johnson, who, arriving late to a Brussels press conference, asked, “O.K., tell me what’s going on and why it’s bad for Britain.” On Brexit, the 2016 Euro Championship, and Trump 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Take the anecdote that opens the film: it’s a tense story about a violent resident trying to run away from the home, but it ends with a joyous punchline that deflates the tension. My streaming gem: why you should watch Short Term 12 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Here and there. I do think everybody went to the books and read about past First Families, just as a source of unexpected stories and anecdotes. Q&;A: Jon Lovett, Former Obama Speechwriter, on His NBC Comedy 1600 Penn 2013-01-10T13:00:14Z Instead, Katz elegantly uses personal anecdotes and the stories of Haitians whose lives were turned upside down to paint a portrait of a struggling yet beguiling country. 'Big Truck' details disastrous Haiti aid effort 2013-01-21T17:25:18Z Mr. Hadreas has a charmingly wicked sense of humor and likes to tell self-deprecating anecdotes, like the time he accidentally bleached his eyebrows white with acne cream. An Aggressive New Album From Perfume Genius 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The profile, timed with the opening of David’s new Broadway show Fish in the Dark, contains a number of other memorable anecdotes about the famous grouch. Larry David Once Pulled a George Costanza 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Instead, Wolfhard uses “like” with reckless teenage abandon and meanders off course with details and anecdotes that excite him. Finn Wolfhard doesn’t really want to be famous 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Parenting blogs are filled with helpful anecdotes and suggestions for raising age-gap kids: Eat dinner together regularly and include all the children in the family’s conversation. My kids’ 9-year age gap is cute now. But what happens when they’re older? 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The book is filled, characteristically, with funny and salty anecdotes about her life in Hollywood. Rita Moreno: The timeless woman in Hollywood who can’t, and won’t, stop 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Most of his anecdotes have that self-deprecating element. James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z The palliative effect this historical foraging has had on my own anxiety is one person’s anecdote. In London, looking backward to move forward 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In place of a traditional plot, we’re given vignettes of quiet despair or anecdotes of minor irritation all distilled into a syrup of poisonous self-absorption. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A telling anecdote has her conducting a discussion with a group of university graduates in 2018, in which she elected to talk not about the Rohingya, or the peace process, or democracy, but about novels. ‘The Hidden History of Burma’ Traces the Vanishing of Hope 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Ernest J. King, under whom Heinlein had once served, the novelist replied that he considered King a nearly perfect military officer and then produced 59 typed pages of anecdote and reminiscence. ‘Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with his Century,’ by William H. Patterson, Jr. It does, though, provide invaluable insight into contemporary practice as well as collecting some great on-the-ground anecdotes. Photography books of the year 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z More anniversarial than adversarial, it’s caught up in commemorative cycles, dragging out the same familiar but increasingly haggard faces, voices and anecdotes for a fresh round of exhibitions, documentaries and magazine retrospectives. How a TV Series Undersells the Danger of the Sex Pistols 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z We were so lucky to capture these anecdotes while these guys are still alive and here to tell the story. ‘Born in Chicago’ Tells of Titans Who Taught Young Protegés 2013-07-25T21:36:16Z But it’s always been difficult for me to fully enjoy those anecdotes, knowing the harm he did to himself with booze. Raise a glass to 1920s Paris and the Americans who imbibed there 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z He also shared anecdotes about Boole, mathematical logic, and the sectarian conflict of his day. ArtsBeat: Google and the Victorians: The History Goes Way Back 2010-12-03T22:49:00Z His cycles are unusual in the way that they arrange self-contained narratives around themes, ideas and suggestive anecdotes. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z Michelle Obama sets the tone and tempo of the current White House, Kantor argues in this admiring account, full of colorful insider anecdotes. 100 Notable Books of 2012 2012-11-27T16:28:12Z “Cringe!” the audience said on Saturday night, repeating the refrain with each squirm-inducing anecdote. Review: ‘Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen’ Takes On the Cringeworthy 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z It is instead a celebration of an artistic achievement, peppered with the kind of mythmaking, behind-the-scenes anecdotes that Broadway fans live for. From Lin-Manuel to Pollan to St. Aubyn: Audiobooks for Every Attention Span 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z But there’s an intensity that colors all his anecdotes about “Vengeance,” whose central premise he had been kicking around for several years. B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Later, over a drink, while in full-flow with one of my better anecdotes, I notice him cleaning his glasses. 'I am not naturally magnetic': can you learn how to be charismatic? 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z Springing from a New York Times Modern Love column, Calhoun’s memoir reads like a series of light and funny essays, formed from original, engrossing anecdotes interspersed with somewhat more predictable life lessons. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z You approach a book with the subtitle “Tales From My Momma’s Table” with trepidation, expecting treacly bits of maternal wisdom stirred into a creamy bowl of heartwarming anecdotes. Eats of Eden 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z “People,” Lucy says, wonderingly, after her mother finishes an anecdote about a runaway wife. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Rage Becomes Her uses anecdotes from Chemaly’s own encounters with female anger. ‘Of course Serena Williams was angry’: writer Soraya Chemaly on why women should unleash their rage 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The comedian interrupts this anecdote to tell other stories, to insult guests demanding more humor, to pacify them with a few jokes and then to further insult them. Review | David Grossman’s new novel presents a stand-up comic in crisis 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Shirley MacLaine, who became friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin while making “Some Came Running” in 1958, shared an anecdote this week in an interview with the Los Angeles Times: . Old Hollywood story of the day 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Tyson reads the introduction to her book, pausing to chuckle at her own anecdotes, before turning the narration over to the brilliant Robin Miles. Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Nineteen years later, with the country in the midst of a monthslong pandemic, Letterman found it difficult to conjure up any similarly inspiring anecdotes. David Letterman Isn’t Here to Cheer You Up This Time 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z I thought of the anecdote the other day in Los Angeles, at the Broad museum’s beautiful retrospective, “Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth.” Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The anecdotes provide leavening but don’t alter the fact that this is a work of serious and wide-ranging scholarship. ‘The Moral Arc’: evidence that humanity is on the upswing 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In a wry but loving eulogy, Courtenay recounted an anecdote about how, while visiting the Berkeley Hotel in the 1970s, the Queen Mother got stuck in one of Inchbald’s lifts. | A Christie’s Auction Honors the Passing of a British Design Giant 2014-01-16T14:00:58Z Not that his anecdotes, refreshingly free of rose-colored distortion and self-important promotion, lacked vivid imagery or incisive analysis. Looking at, listening to 1967's London scene 2011-03-20T12:45:00Z This is the brand of anecdote that is all too common at this point in my life. Godsmacked: I’m an atheist at a hardcore Christian academy 2014-01-24T13:00:00Z She confirms a Broadway anecdote from 2009 that she had to be warned not to dance too near the edge of the stage. Angela Lansbury follows in mother's footsteps 2014-01-23T10:49:10Z As far as the actual combat goes, the stories told by Stroud and Dimbleby tally, and similar quotes and anecdotes appear in both books. The Phantom Army of Alamein by Rick Stroud - review 2012-12-21T22:55:05Z Photograph: Tom Waine As erudite as he was rude, Kenneth Williams is now remembered as the author of a bleak and illuminating diary and not just for his saucy anecdotes and Carry On films. Kenneth Williams: secret loves behind the life of a tormented man 2010-10-09T23:08:00Z Kushner cycles through the women’s tragic stories, mingling horrific anecdotes from before they were incarcerated with grim events in prison. Review | If you like despair — and ‘Orange Is the New Black’ — you’ll love ‘The Mars Room’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z He lays his own insecurities so bare and shares personal anecdotes in such an engaging manner that the reader’s eyes never glaze over in response to excess bragging or name-dropping. Dave Holmes’s hilarious memoir will delight pop culture junkies 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Montefiore is a master of colorful and telling details and anecdotes; some of the best are in the notes at the bottom of many pages. 'Jerusalem': An unholy history of a holy city 2011-12-22T00:52:03Z The stories told by the women raise sharp questions about the anecdotes that Louis C.K. tells in his own comedy. Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Ms. Thurber asked permission for every anecdote and detail she borrowed. From Three Troubled Lives, a Play and a New Family 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z My boyfriend intended this as a lighthearted anecdote and did not understand why I was hurt. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A mixed relationship and a mixed message 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The job they perform in “Title and Deed” is to illuminate, through a winding stream of eccentric anecdote and quirky insight, our essential homelessness in the world. Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z I learned to go through the clips, find the names of people from the subject's past, hunt them up in old telephone books, track them down, and pull out anecdotes they knew. Nora Ephron, writer-filmmaker, dies at 71 2012-06-27T03:28:11Z Luckhurst neither downplays Lovecraft’s racism nor exaggerates it compared to his contemporaries — an anecdote about the racism of Henry James is used to telling effect. Does H.P. Lovecraft belong in the canon? 2013-05-08T22:07:00Z This meticulous show tells its story via documentary photographs, letters, original paste-up materials and anecdotes filled with witticisms and insider gossip. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Williams repeated the anecdote several times, including on David Letterman’s talk show in 2013 and on his broadcast last week. NBC launches probe into Brian Williams’s claims 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Family situations are almost always more complex than a single anecdote can convey. Can I Tell My Friend Her Halloween Costume Is Problematic? 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z He answered several questions by telling anecdotes about Ms. Holmes, like her habit of bringing snacks for the cast and crew as part of her role as the show’s designated Actors’ Equity deputy. Katie Holmes and Norbert Leo Butz in ‘Dead Accounts’ 2012-11-07T13:00:00Z However this anecdote, like the true cause of his death, is the subject of much debate. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z The final video stars a sloth named David, who fails to appropriately respond to an anecdote concerning a teenage girl’s abhorrence of people who wear socks with sandals. ‘Stoner sloth’ anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z “I’m not very fond of poetry readings,” Elizabeth Bishop once said in an interview, before relating an excruciating anecdote about an epically dull reading by Robert Lowell. Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z Published months before Donald Trump's election, it was perfectly timed for the zeitgeist, and Vance's extended personal anecdote suddenly became the authoritative text about enigmatic working-class whites, all presumptive Trump supporters. The chattering classes got the "Hillbilly Elegy" book wrong—and they’re getting the movie wrong, too 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z Social media, Elma believes, distracts us from telling each other these stories by offering an endless stream of superficial anecdotes. Ask your mum questions and you may discover… yourself 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Which isn’t to disregard the actual music in the production, which not only bridges the anecdotes but also maintains the brisk tempo of the show. ‘Lackawanna Blues’ Review: A Soulful Master Class in Storytelling 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z John Mulaney appears to have become, as many veteran comics do, more cynical about this relationship, and speaks to it after relating an anecdote that makes him look bad. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z City guides, personal essays and anecdotes from your most beautiful friends set up holidaying alone as the most rewarding way of being a woman abroad. 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z I am a typophile, and Garfield has written a very amusing book of typographic anecdotes and homages to the designers who subtly shape all the words we read. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z In these circumstances, the anecdote that Leighton's dying words were "give my love to the Royal Academy" seems likely to be true. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z A book of great promise reads as a compendium of the obvious, ethnology by anecdote. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z Editors at Lippincott told Ms. Lee that her manuscript read like a string of anecdotes, not a novel, but encouraged her to revise. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Freshly unearthed anecdotes, like a tantrum Jobs threw in 1979 at a meeting of Silicon Valley bigwigs for a foundation to eliminate blindness in India, don’t do much to soften the picture. ‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Given its length and scholarly detail, “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters” isn’t sprightly, but it is definitive and chockablock with entertaining anecdotes. Review | Who was Max Jacob? A poet, friend of Picasso and, a new biography shows, a man who defied easy labels 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z The Trump White House pushed back on Woodward’s most recent book, “Fear,” with its own nonspecific NDD regarding the book’s many anecdotes about infighting and chaos among Trump’s top officials. Ask the Trump White House for comment and you might get a non-denial denial 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z There were no personal anecdotes, no profound revelations about who she was, because no one truly knew her; Picciotto shared only fragments of her personal history and her innermost thoughts with a trusted few. Pennsylvania Ave. activist Concepcion Picciotto’s vigil lives on after her death — with some changes 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The point of her Target anecdote: If someone like her still falls prey to the carefully engineered impulse to buy, buy, buy, imagine how vulnerable the rest of us are. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He believed in the ’60s dream, often citing an anecdote that for a few days in 1966, the stars were so aligned that you could expect any wish to be granted. Paul Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane, dies at 74 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Cher repeated the anecdote she told the Advocate last year, of the sadness of hearing her daughter Chastity's voice for the last time on Chaz's voice mail, "and knowing I'll never hear it again." Chaz Bono's complicated path to manhood 2011-05-10T15:30:00Z Although she was apparently shy, her quietly modulated voice could lend itself to a racy anecdote. Elizabeth Jenkins obituary 2010-09-07T17:43:00Z From March 18 to April 29, the historical society will hold community forums around the state, seeking anecdotes and artifacts like protest posters, fringed outerwear and cars painted in psychedelic patterns. Irish Artifacts and Provenance 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z His comic style is based in stories that set him up to be knocked down, like the anecdote in which an act of high school bravery on behalf of a bullied classmate is resoundingly rejected. Review: ‘Now I’m Fine,’ Ahamefule J. Oluo’s Take on Himself 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Anthropologists studying a tribe in southern Africa in the 1970s distinguished between two kinds of stories: those told during daylight — gossipy anecdotes, your average water-cooler chat — and those told at night. Two Stories Harmonize in Lisa Halliday’s Deft Debut Novel 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z His book is a marvel of popular historical writing, propelled by anecdotes and just the right amount of explanation but also impressively well grounded in the latest academic research by historians, sociologists and others. Can We Trust Economists? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z In Part 2, Jude features a "short dictionary of anecdotes, signs, and wonders," that define various power dynamics, from colonialism, to censorship, and persecution. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Since the term “cloaking” doesn’t appear to exist prior to Thompson’s experience — at least in terms of dating — anecdotes of being #cloaked are not as widely available online. 'Cloaking' is the latest allegedly horrible dating trend to get its own term 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The story ended with an endearing anecdote about the author spotting Reeves squeezing into a chair in the cheap seats at a local theatre. Keanu Stories: fans share unexpected meetings with 'sweet, quiet, nervous' Reeves 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z When asked about the stove's learning curve, Lemm offered this anecdote: The legendary allure of Britain's AGA stove 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet it is the anecdotes buried in research papers or related to him by scientists who work with animals that Mr Godfrey-Smith contends are often more revealing than the experiments themselves. The smart arms of the octopus 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z While it nominally describes the author’s efforts to improve his sleight of hand and regain his self-respect, “Fooling Houdini” is more than a series of anecdotes. Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z They cite many of the same anecdotes, and credit the same historical noise warriors. Books: Meditations on Noise in 3 Books About Silence 2010-05-17T22:17:00Z That is not to say his extraterrestrial anecdotes fail to entertain. A Memoir of a Year on the International Space Station 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z In the fourth season all the major characters have a parable to share, a historical anecdote to bestow or a yarn holstered and ready to unravel. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z For those who have watched Rachel Maddow’s television show, the opening scene of her book will feel familiar in its eye for a compelling anecdote. Rachel Maddow Takes On the Oil Industry 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z He tells an anecdote in which he took a rare trip south of the river. The secret world of liggers: ‘Free booze is everywhere’ 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z In “A Really Good Day” — a mix of anecdote, science and policy — Waldman again unpacks her heavy emotional baggage. ‘A Really Good Day’: One harried mom’s LSD experiment 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The theme of identity runs through her series of anecdotes, many of which involve her colorful family. Review: ‘Hi, Hitler’ and Other Tales From a Lively Household 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Like magpies, the trio shamelessly collect anecdotes to adapt. Getting On: deadpan with bedpans 2010-10-18T20:07:00Z We hear that he was unpredictable, brilliant and generous, but there is a curious shortage of anecdotes that might bring those traits to life. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Ozzy is just one of scores of fans and associates from two musical generations who provide talking-head tributes to the man, recounting specific anecdotes as well as the impact of his legacy. 'Lemmy': Bowing down to the rock-god force behind Mot?rhead 2011-02-03T20:19:12Z I’ve told the little Baja anecdote dozens of times to my two children, who grew up watching the cartoon, and to their friends, and to my own friends. When SpongeBob SquarePants Was Just a Sketch on a Beach in Baja 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Apart from a handful of first-person anecdotes from scene veterans, there is a lack of broader historical context. When New York’s Nightclubs Were Secret Empires 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Now in his mid-80s, he is slender and quick, a New York talker, a man of polished anecdotes, long digressions, and strong opinions disguised with smiles. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z I wrote about this – it's a rather delightful anecdote. Julia Child's secret sauce and the little black dresses of French cuisine 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z It opens with an anecdote about a JetBlue flight trapped on the tarmac and regulations that required a mother to deny her young daughter the bathroom. A British Power Broker Sets His Sights on Washington 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The daughter of a legendary screen icon tries to make sense of her late mother’s life by separating the truth from the well-worn anecdotes. 50 notable works of fiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Colleagues, neighbors and family members, listed as “witnesses” in the end credits, contribute their own anecdotes and insights. ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’ Review: China Through Writers’ Eyes 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Most of its anecdotes end with lines like: “The movie grossed close to $300 million.” Reflections of a Former Hollywood Power Broker 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z “If Our Bodies Could Talk” is a numbingly upbeat grab bag of anecdotes and factoids and curiosities with no through-narrative. Review: ‘If Our Bodies Could Talk,’ Our Spleens Probably Wouldn’t Be Funny 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In twice-weekly episodes, the hosts riff on the latest political news and offer anecdotes and insights from their own time in Washington. 8 Podcasts to Help Make Sense of Post-Trump America 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Among his best-known anecdotes is that of Giotto, who in 1304 won an important commission in Rome by demonstrating his skill in less than one minute. How Giorgio Vasari Invented Art History as We Know It 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Even as a youngster, he seemed to be crafting his persona, as illustrated by an anecdote about his reputation as a chess hustler during his first days in Greenwich Village. Review | ‘The Double Life of Bob Dylan’ is the definitive account of a shape-shifting genius’s early years 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z There is, though, a tasty anecdote about her first encounter with Quentin Tarantino and the screenplay he later mailed her. Sex Symbols Squared 2010-06-04T21:34:00Z “The Cake and the Rain” is full of colorful anecdotes, well told and entertainingly punctuated by the steady dropping of names: Frank Sinatra was my friend! Hot Tracks: Summer’s Big Books on Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z An embarrassing anecdote may be funny — but this may not be the time to share it. 7 Tips for Avoiding a Wedding Toast Disaster 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Many anecdotes in “Led Zeppelin” inspire a visceral disgust — sexual violence and other crude behavior that can’t be detailed in a family newspaper. Review | Was Led Zeppelin the best or the worst of rock-and-roll? A new book will help you decide. 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Norman Lear tells the mother of all Jewish-mother anecdotes, and it bears repeating in print even though it’s certainly funnier in person. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Among those tales was of course how he once met Tolkien, in a pub, an anecdote that he worked to some effect on the "LOTR" and "Hobbit" sets. Christopher Lee's Olivier (and Gandalfian) ambitions 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z His famous habit of regaling his cast with anecdotes about himself to illuminate something in the script created an atmosphere of community and trust that encouraged actors to draw on their own experiences in performance. Review | ‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ is a shrewd, in-depth examination of the elusive man behind the polished facade 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z He reveals the name of the Kennedy biography from which this anecdote comes but not the name of the movie. Books of The Times: What Befits a Leader in Hard Times? An Intimate Knowledge of Insanity 2011-08-10T21:05:51Z The zeitgeist at the moment is to wallow in failure and to prefer anecdote to evidence. State schools: are they failing our children? 2011-02-27T00:05:50Z This would have worked as an anecdote, except home video didn't yet exist then. Confessions of a celebrity biographer 2010-08-03T23:27:00Z The comfortable silence that friends share rarely lasted long on our bike rides, as Oliver unfurled precious facts and anecdotes. A Year Without Oliver Sacks 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Like last year's keynote speaker, Bruce Springsteen, Grohl presented a powerful message wrapped inside a casual, self-deprecating series of anecdotes, a life lesson masquerading as a life story. SXSW 2013 keynote: Dave Grohl and the importance of 'voice' 2013-03-14T18:17:00Z With the first therapist I saw to help with the processing of the grief of her passing, I would share stories and anecdotes of life and my upbringing with her. "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In these talks, Milch mixes jokes, anecdotes from his own life, lessons he learned from his teacher Robert Penn Warren, and dicta such as "Don't think about writing when you're not writing." The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z A portrait gallery, a collection of anecdotes, some of them wonderful, a parade of scenes, some of them finely assembled, a series of descriptions, yes, but the book is no novel. Revisiting the ‘Emotional Hodge-Podge’ of ‘Catch-22’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z They arrive poised, leave poised, tell practised anecdotes, appear open but are closed. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z I found this anecdote very funny and wanted to know who revealed it, but Chafkin promised anonymity to some sources to get any number of unflattering details about Thiel into this book. ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z The participating stars will use their own experiences and funny anecdotes to help callers through their situations. What to watch on Monday: ‘The Nest’ on Acorn TV 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Like his first memoir, “Pancakes in Paris,” this charming sequel explores Carlson’s unexpected success operating an American diner in the capital of France, with plenty of colorful anecdotes and personal detours. New & Noteworthy, From French Pancakes to a Bipartisan Road Trip 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Jacobsen’s account is full of entertaining anecdotes; she catalogs the seers, the spoon-benders and the researchers who administered ESP tests to plants, all funded in the interest of national security. Paperback Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr Duhigg is an effective storyteller with a knack for combining social science, fastidious reporting and entertaining anecdotes. Getting the most out of one’s self 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z That moving anecdote is one of several that will quicken the pulse of even obsessive Apple watchers. ‘Becoming Steve Jobs,’ by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Occasionally enhancing his anecdotes with words in Spanish, he spoke about his father’s thoughts on his profession, breaking ground before inclusion was a Hollywood priority, and staying on the entertainment industry “menu.” Andy Garcia Is the Father of the Bride in More Ways Than One 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z “He tells anecdotes that are blatantly false. His stories have always been repurposed farmer’s daughter routines that he swears happened to him.” Norm Macdonald, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedian, Dies at 61 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z It's not an autobiography, even though it gives anecdotes throughout my life. Family Attorney: Jackson children just normal kids 2010-06-21T08:31:00Z The culminating shock of “Imbeciles”—a book full of shocking anecdotes—is the fact that Buck v. The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z I’m happy when I’m sitting at a table sharing stories, jokes and anecdotes with friends. Cow-milking lessons from mom: Life (and writing) skills from my mother 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z He was too full of anecdotes and advice, too successful, and a little too jaded to be 36. What He Hadn’t Told Me 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Hernández’s book contains one anecdote that not only gives the lie to Guzmán’s gentleman bandit image, but also introduces the new power on the scene. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The series also illustrates some anecdotes with cheeky, humorous animated passages that are a welcome break from stretches of interviews and archival footage reminiscences. "They've Gotta Have Us" could have made history, if it weren't missing so much of it 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The Foos frontman is a man of delightfully meandering anecdotes, most of which are tame save for a recurrent verbal tic that rhymes with “muck” and serves as the equivalent of “um.” Dave Grohl: A back-aching, coffee-guzzling, minivan-driving classic rocker 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z He always told amusing anecdotes about the war so it seemed quite innocuous and entertaining. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z An anecdote about just missing a flight doesn’t end at the ticket counter, where some other comic’s might; it ends with the Cinnabon clerk, the only other person in sight at the gate. Theater Review: Stomach-Churning Date in Love Life Full of Bumps 2011-04-01T21:47:08Z New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman recounted a number of anecdotes purporting to exhibit Ailes’ sexism in “The Loudest Voice in the Room,” his 2014 book chronicling the history of Ailes and Fox News. Gretchen Carlson isn’t the first to speak out: Roger Ailes has a long history of alleged sexism 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z At one point, she reprises the anecdote about Schumann being asked by a student to explain a difficult piece and, in response, sitting at the piano and playing it again. Claire Keegan 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z That anecdote is presented as neither formative nor illuminating. ‘Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?’: for fans of Noam Chomsky 2013-12-12T21:02:16Z Minor White, showing off his righty stance, and hiding his body and the strike zone beneath a shawl, proclaims, cryptically, “Baseball is an amusing anecdote about beautiful women.” Baseball Cards for the Photography Set 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But that history nonetheless feels implicit in every frame, infusing what might otherwise be a touching anecdote about real estate troubles and houseguest etiquette with gravity and grace. 'Love Is Strange’ Stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “The Turin Horse,” a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Mr. Tarr’s uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. Movie Review: Bela Tarr?s Final Film, ?The Turin Horse? 2012-02-09T22:58:40Z Whether you consider the video boom pop's zenith, its ruination or both at once, you'll find someone who agrees with you in this goldmine of insight and anecdote. Christmas gifts 2012: the best music books 2012-11-29T08:00:04Z Routinely, Natterson checks her writerly ego for the sake of clarity and health, offering anecdotes right up front and bullets of “how to talk about this stuff” at the end of every chapter. The Myth of the Silent, Sulky, Horny Teenage Boy 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Among her immediate reactions when the game and her streak ended: She was sad but also relieved that “I don’t have to come up with anymore anecdotes,” the stories that contestants share during game breaks. ‘Jeopardy!’ champ Amy Schneider opens a new chapter for show 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z This anecdote from my past occurs to me as I flip channels and read on Facebook and Twitter what all my friends are watching. Dead women, killer ratings: “Game of Thrones,” “True Detective” and TV’s epidemic of violence against women 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z I was hoping through different anecdotes and historical accounts and philosophical meditations, that people would have an idea of, at least my experience about race. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z And there are other anecdotes, ones that are very personal to you... Author Michael Rosen delves into Dahl 2012-09-13T01:59:57Z There are anecdotes, for example, that Isaacson repeats as if introducing them to the reader for the first time. 'Steve Jobs' delves deep into complex man's life 2011-10-24T13:43:50Z To understand Picasso's works, you must regard them as "anecdotes or snapshots of a particular moment in his life". Picasso was just a big show-off. Most of his work is inherently trivial 2010-12-12T22:00:00Z In another chapter, McPhee addresses the uneasy relationship between editors and writers, illustrating his points with anecdotes from life at the New Yorker. A master class in writing from John McPhee 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z There are also thematic outliers, like “Reincarnation,” an original by his master, Bunshi, and “Rotten Tofu Chiritotechin” — both of which branch away from personal anecdotes, and Mr. Sunshine performs them with more narrative distance. Review: ‘Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo’ Offers Stand-Up Comedy Without the Standing 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z They say it's the result that counts - a song that, to them, turns some of the most stinging flashpoints of American racial history into aw-shucks anecdotes. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z “He would always tell anecdotes about characters in the book he was writing, but would only show it when it was about 90 percent there.” Gabriel García Márquez’s Archive Goes to University of Texas 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The images, at once flat and tactile, crude and subtle, serve the psychology of the story perfectly, tying an anecdote of family strife into knots of difficult feeling. ‘Crisis Hotline,’ ‘La Parka,’ ‘Joanna’ and Other Short Oscar Nominees 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z If so, are there any personal anecdotes you can share? Designer for the age of austerity 2012-06-25T00:00:00Z The quick-sketch rendering of anecdotes that have acquired the burnish of legend is often entertaining. Theater Review: Several Moss Harts Are in ‘Act One,’ at Lincoln Center 2014-04-18T02:00:15Z Revisit that moment with this little anecdote in your ears, and you might hear tiny flickers of rushing and reticence in Withers’s bedrock voice. Perspective | Bill Withers, on repeat 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Garland’s tossed-off anecdote was a kind of dynamite, and the Munchkins spent the rest of their lives trying to defuse it. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z He also, of course, shares some stunning anecdotes, like the time one physician told him that the act of killing a child with sedatives “didn’t seem so much a killing as a putting to sleep.” | 'Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors': In Holocaust, Medicine?s Twisted Rationales 2010-10-05T23:03:00Z He said the play includes some language from Sultan’s book, and some anecdotes gleaned from interviews with Sultan’s widow, Kelly, but that most of the dialogue was invented by the playwright. Nathan Lane to Return to Broadway This Winter in ‘Pictures From Home’ 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z He was always dealing some smarmy anecdote about his friendship with Trebek and emphasizing that he performs surgery on hearts. What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z According to the publisher, Bennack will share “insider anecdotes” and “hard-won lessons” as he remembers his long reign at Hearst, where he served at CEO for more than 25 years. Former Hearst CEO Frank Bennack writing memoir 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But if Liszt as pianist, teacher and conductor exists now only as memory, anecdote and influence, Liszt as a composer is with us as never before. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z In recent days, as a trickle of tour cancellations grew to a deluge, crew members’ Facebook feeds and groups texts began to fill with deflating anecdotes and commiseration. Concerts Are on Hold. Workers Behind the Stars Are Hurting. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z In a much-told anecdote, he said that once he saw the remake, he knew what the worst one was. Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 2013-08-20T14:28:20Z Still, his scholarly and eloquent prose made the book an enjoyable read and I learnt lots of great anecdotes along the way. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z There is one unintentionally revealing anecdote from the tragic hours of 9/11 that actually serves as kind of coda to these recollections. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z This new anecdote is more of the same. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Taken as an extended anecdote, though, this creaky tale of masculine obsession is not without its charms – in a Luis Buñuel-on-anti-depressants sort of way. Film review: Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl 2010-08-05T21:35:00Z By anecdotes I mean subtle exaggerations, slightly embellished stories, and willfully distorted scenes. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z In the definitive book about rock music in Los Angeles, Barney Hoskyns’s “Waiting For the Sun,” Fowley seems to show up in nearly every chapter, often with a clever line or anecdote. The explosive Runaways rape story: Will Joan Jett speak up for her bandmates now? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Wharton's film is chock-full of anecdotes by Carter and his famous musical friends. "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President": A loving relationship to music that "cuts through politics" 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Her enunciation and pace through the anecdote are just brilliant; it's a neat little showcase for a consummate performer. Patricia Neal: a career in clips 2010-08-09T11:06:00Z It was Pence who served up a platter of warmhearted anecdotes that were sorta-kinda about the boss. Perspective | Mike Pence had a few things to say at the convention: Trump is great. Trump is great. And Trump is great. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z The history of the game’s being used that way is twined up with an anecdote from the reign of Henry V, the powerful young king who had once been Shakespeare’s reckless Prince Hal. David Foster Wallace’s Perfect Game 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Dotti combines personal anecdotes and family recipes in the revealing volume, which is part biography and part cookbook. How to Cook like Audrey Hepburn 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Chong segues from one celebrity anecdote to another, all of them connected by one degree of separation – himself. Tommy Chong: 'We were always high. That was the job' 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z It was an unintentional oversight for which he would spend the next hour apologizing while trading anecdotes, posing questions of his own and sounding sincerely interested. Adam Driver Takes the Wheel 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z In another book by another writer, such anecdotes might land with a stunning force, but Bolton fails to present them that way, leaving them to swim in a stew of superfluous detail. In ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ John Bolton Dumps His Notes and Smites His Enemies 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z After Carson replied with an anecdote about his experience as a pediatric neurosurgeon, Hewitt pressed: “So you are OK with the deaths of thousands of innocent children and civilians?” This question is CNN and Hugh Hewitt’s shame: “Could you order air strikes that would kill innocent children by not the scores, but the hundreds and the thousands?” 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Ironically, this anecdote takes place in the one chapter of the book dedicated to the importance of saying no. In ‘Year of Yes,’ Shonda Rhimes shares tips from her own enlightenment 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z As podcasts have exploded in popularity, actors from numerous series have started their own recap shows, in which they share behind-the-scenes anecdotes and nostalgic reflections. 6 TV Recap Podcasts for Better Binge Viewing 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Respect for colleagues' possible desire to be alone with a headache and a newspaper seems to have been abandoned, and endless anecdotes are swapped over the rye bread, boiled eggs and smoked ham. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z He is well informed, breezy and conversational in tone, and full of fascinating anecdotes, often in sparkling footnotes. Creation: The Origin of Life; The Future of Life, by Adam Rutherford – review 2013-04-06T14:00:01Z “He does this first of all by humanizing writers through just the right anecdote or conceit.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z CK’s anecdote is a cautionary tale of the illusionary nature of online communication, where a comment lobbed in one direction can seemingly land in an altogether different one. Louis CK: I wasn’t defending Tosh 2012-07-17T14:30:00Z But there are also fond anecdotes about his daughters, and a confession about the nerve damage he suffers in his left hand. Simon Munnery ? review 2011-02-14T22:30:01Z He does talk about himself, of course, but usually to relate an anecdote. Comedy gold: Billy Connolly's Billy and Albert 2012-05-17T14:32:23Z So even his hardware store anecdote has a point. Books of The Times: What It Was All About for Alfie, Now a Grandpa 2010-10-24T21:54:00Z From his desk, he told a charming anecdote about an outing with his wife that went awry. New host Seth Meyers lands at NBC's 'Late Night' 2014-02-25T14:02:38Z Many of her anecdotes are outlandish, drawing moral lines in unexpected places, and delivered with a deadpan wit. In ‘The Folded Clock,’ Heidi Julavits takes you inside her real/fake diary 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In 1984’s “Gremlins,” one of the movie’s signature moments, the “Why I hate Christmas” anecdote related by Phoebe Cates’s character, almost didn’t make it in. Joe Dante: ‘Gremlins’ Director Reflects on His Biggest Hits 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Typically, though, their scripts were compilations of quotations and anecdotes, many of which might be culled from a Wikipedia entry, bent into flimsy narrative arcs. Critic’s Notebook: Creating Barbra Streisand in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ 2013-07-29T22:28:23Z It’s the most recent thing in the book, and, as the title suggests, the funniest — less a novella than a shaggy anecdote. Roberto Bolaño Recenters His Mythic World 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Even with the anecdote, the history of its maker's life remains a blank. British Museum explores historic secrets of gay love 2013-06-20T18:08:56Z For existing superfans, this is more of an opportunity to revisit the ideas and anecdotes you already love. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Black Mirror’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Sands spends about an hour there, recounting anecdotes about his personal experiences working with Pinter, the Nobel Laureate, who died in 2008. For Theater Lovers, a City Is the Stage, and a Purple Cow Is a Prop 2011-08-12T22:44:06Z Between numbers, Mr. Epperson, 60, told anecdotes about growing up in Hazlehurst, Miss., and moving to New York in the late 1970s. Review: John Epperson Steps Out, Leaving the Diva at Home 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z He was plain-spoken, self-deprecating and always in possession of an amusing anecdote or quip. John McCain knew how to make journalists love him 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z At its heart was a family Thanksgiving that went terribly wrong, and that in two brief moments — a dirty anecdote and a shouted expletive — was totally stolen by Langella. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z I asked a fair number of questions about my father's old life, and got anecdotes and got what I felt was the emotional kernel and emotional truth of his story. Alan Yang on making Netflix's lush and devastating "Tigertail" and the song that made grown men cry 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Do not blame me for dropping this stink bomb of an anecdote on you. Is It Possible to Body-Block Our Loved Ones From Pain? Alas, No. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z In person, he is quizzical, courteous, excited by tiny details, quick to share a self-deprecating anecdote and earnest about the craft of writing. Using Fiction to Summon the Glittering, Golden Age of Hollywood 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z He tells funny, relatable anecdotes about his experiences with, and efforts to manage, depression, anxiety and agoraphobia. An Outsider Takes on Ireland, From Inside a Plastic Bag 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z With “Save Me the Plums,” Reichl tells her story with one anecdote after another, some almost cinematic, and many featuring long quotes from loved ones, colleagues and even party guests. Review | From Gourmet to Serious Eats, two food memoirs chronicle the pitfalls of old and new media 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Moorcock then tells an anecdote about this uncle who'd been Winston Churchill's secretary and served a succession of prime ministers. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z It was prefaced by an anecdote about a man urinating in a New York subway station, Ms. Murney’s disgust and another observer’s mean-spirited reaction. Review: Julia Murney in Honesty Mode at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z This interview didn't trawl through the usual life story and well-trodden anecdotes, but let the comedian talk about a craft he knows better than most. A week in radio: Ken Dodd and Italo Calvino on Radio 3 2012-06-07T20:30:04Z Being able to share anecdotes like that with co-workers, she said — not to mention being surrounded by great artwork — is “wildly inspiring and incredibly fun.” Fisher Collection at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2010-06-05T08:48:00Z The book is full of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that mix grit, gumption and charm. Ted Hope traces long career in indie film in 'Hope for Film' 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z That bleak plotline, though, is repeatedly interrupted by short anecdotes of kindness, countervailing moments of friendship between Leila and other outcasts. Review | Elif Shafak continues to resist Turkey’s repressive government with brilliant fiction 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z In “The Know-It-All,” Jacobs told of his 18-month effort to read the entire “Encyclopaedia Britannica,” using its abecedarian entries as prompts for reflection and anecdotes. In ‘It’s All Relative,’ A.J. Jacobs Shakes the Family Tree 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z In an extended anecdote, she described visiting Mr. Lloyd Webber’s palatial manse in England for a banquet celebrating the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and being dazzled by the pomp and ceremony. Sierra Boggess Performs at 54 Below 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z What remains from the dead-tree versions, of course, are the cheekily concise summations of a smart selection of accommodations, restaurants, shops, clubs and culture — along with sundry raves, grievances and anecdotes. | Luxe City Guides for iPhone 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z She asks hard questions: “Why are we so afraid to tell the stories of the majority who die? Why keep promoting the positive anecdote? Why all this mollycoddling?” An Oncologist Asks When It’s Time to Say ‘Enough’ 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But, without anything to laugh at, think on or care about, this is just a scrapbook of semi-interesting anecdotes, a loosely edited sprawl. This Is 40 – first look review 2012-12-21T11:16:17Z The next few minutes, a mix of caustic anecdotes and off-color zingers, earn her a standing ovation and a public indecency arrest. Did You Hear the One About the Housewife Who Walks Into a Comedy Club? 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Still, she says that anecdotes suggest most people are glad they unearthed the facts, even if the consequences were difficult. Before You Spit in That Vial, Read This Book 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Davis is happy to recount his life to Bahrani, peppering his anecdotes with corny jokes and wild comments or outright lies as well as deflecting some of the tougher questions. Meet the narcissistic inventor of the bulletproof vest who "endangered as many lives as he saved" 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z The data is scarce, but the anecdotes are plentiful. Marijuana and the opioids crisis: can a 'gateway drug' become an 'exit drug'? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He included some new tidbits that are not in the book — a vivid anecdote about Mr. Bowers, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra, for instance — but left out dozens of other boldfaced names. A Starring Role for Hollywood’s Sexual Zelig 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Orwell’s speeches, either in rehearsal with Carlotta or made directly to the audience, survey his writings, offer biographical anecdotes and announce his hope that socialism will triumph in the postwar world. Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z In one anecdote from her book — the New York Post had an exclusive peek Sunday — Madison described her first visit to Hef's lady-filled bedroom. Holly Madison is just bitter she's not Mrs. Hefner, Kendra Wilkinson says 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Many past attendees also celebrate the party itself in a recent special issue of Billboard magazine that devoted six pages to their reminiscences and anecdotes from years past. Clive Davis on his 2015 pre-Grammy bash: 'It's overwhelming' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Obviously, the anecdotes are a lot less amusing when it’s kids rather than pets who get into a parent’s stash. Marijuana’s last taboo: Parents who get stoned 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the book’s extensive series of trials and anecdotes neither offers a narrative drive to propel the reader forward nor adds up to a broader conclusion. Courtly love 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The show, mostly anecdotes and card tricks, considers themes of isolation and connection and the differences among fact, fiction and illusion. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z But while Ms. Syman has amassed a lot of entertaining anecdotes about the history of yoga in this country, her overall narrative suffers from odd gaps and elisions. Books of The Times: Stefanie Syman?s Yoga History, ?The Subtle Body? 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z The two then contributed anecdotes to Baker and Bergoch, who collected them into their script. 'Misery loves comedy' in 'Tangerine,' a seriocomic film about trans sex workers 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z A collection of artists, musicians and assorted hustlers gathered beneath the graffiti-scrawled walls and a pink neon sign to exchange hugs and anecdotes about Mr. Hill. All-Night Sendoff for a Clubland King 2011-04-06T23:39:28Z The old-timer anecdotes, extreme-sport sequences and proselytizing about protecting nature are only some of the subjects and characters crammed together on this unfocused, yet often breathtaking voyage. '180 Degrees South': Trekking ? and surfing and climbing ? to Patagonia 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z Hoose’s enlightening book contains plenty of tense moments but also features some lighter anecdotes. The best children’s books for May 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z If it’s not, then it’s just a funny anecdote. Annabelle Gurwitch wrote a book about adapting to life’s curveballs. Then the biggest curveball came. 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z Despite its many arresting images and diverting anecdotes, it reads like a very smart person’s very well-written diary. Politics Drove Rebecca Mead From Her Adopted Home and Into Her Next Book 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z His anecdotes are interesting and often good fodder for when you need a "Hmm, who knew" fact. William Bryant Logan's new book 'Air': it's everywhere 2012-08-01T19:58:03Z "It's always a great pleasure to talk to older people in Russia, to hear their anecdotes." Van Cliburn, American classical pianist, dies 2013-02-27T17:19:28Z But the book is not just a series of wild anecdotes from a therapist’s couch. Review | Life beyond ‘Star Trek’: Kate Mulgrew’s poignant, sometimes shocking family story 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z A spectacular hole-in-the-wall, or an eatery that was unprecedented in its awfulness, could be sources of dinner-table anecdotes for years to come. Review | Tice Cin’s ‘Keeping the House’ is a family drama with a side of suspense 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z In most of its 247 pages, "The Mayor" is bereft of the sort of telling anecdote, or novel observation, that would offer readers a new intimacy with their subject. 'The Mayor' by Richard Riordan short on revelations, insight 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Often the speaker was my father, sharing some amusing anecdote or bit of history. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z Perhaps a slightly staged anecdote would be a good ploy to point the way to further possible non-judgmental discussions. Should I tell my friends their son probably has a drug problem? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In a last anecdote, he recalls when as a child he was sent to summer camp. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z “Treasure-house” is an apt translation of the Latin word “thesaurus,” so it’s fitting that this picture-book biography of the most famous thesaurus-maker would itself be a treasure house — full of well-chosen anecdotes and inventive illustrations. How Roget came to make his famous reference book: A primer for kids There’s a familiar anecdote about a conversation, probably apocryphal, between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway: Fitzgerald says, “The rich are different from you and me,” and Hemingway rejoins, “Yes, they have more money.” ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z He began collecting fresh stories from serving officers, and in the front of Harbour Nocturne, the author thanks 51 of them "for the terrific anecdotes and great cop talk". Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh – review 2012-12-16T00:05:02Z The look of pain on his face as he recounts this anecdote speaks volumes — Mr. Filipov’s father, Alexander, was a passenger on the plane flown into 1 World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Review: ‘Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing’ Focuses on the Struggle to Recover 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It trundles around a circular loop of the city centre, with the rolling commentary sharing anecdotes about the history, buildings and parks. 10 of the world's best public transport rides: readers’ travel tips 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Fortunately there were enough anecdotes to go round. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z There is no shortage of anecdotes like the encounter at Acker. That $1,000 Bourbon You Bought May Be a Phony 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z There are flashes of the old Campbell – jokes, anecdotes, rightwing one-liners, still there as reflex responses. Glen Campbell: One last love song 2011-08-26T22:01:04Z Mr. Dawkins is invited many places — conferences, lectures, trips to see things like a giant squid at the bottom of the ocean — and he takes his readers along, shedding opinions, anecdotes and data as goes. Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z He looks to military history, Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, historical anecdotes, conspiracy theories, and dashes of William F. Buckley and Ayn Rand. “American Dharma,” Reviewed: Errol Morris Lets Steve Bannon Off the Hook 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z The peculiar visiting ritual ordered by Gala is a well-known anecdote. Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z Working in this vernacular mode, Hokusai eschewed high-flown rhetoric and pompous symbolism in favour of images that entertain with anecdote and delight with their bright colour and eye-catching compositions. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Someone who might include the Parmesan anecdote, but the purpose of its inclusion would be to explain not how women nag their brilliant husbands, but how brilliant men can sometimes be major jerks. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z There are fewer anecdotes about meetings with ordinary people, though Nick Clegg met some mechanics in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown some young guys just this morning. Leaders' debate: Gripping television, if a little short on excitement 2010-04-23T05:00:00Z The French pride themselves on conversing on a lofty plane; when Americans start exchanging anecdotes or matching experiences, many French people raise an eyebrow and ask, “Eh, alors?” A Book Full of Reasons to Love Paris 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Occasionally a note of self-doubt will seep into his talk, as when he acknowledges “my own crippling fear of impermanence,” but then he dashes to the next cheery anecdote. Review: ‘Living Here’ Sends Gideon Irving to Wander City Apartments 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Whether reality or allegory, that anecdote is telling: the team at Vintry is serious about collecting, not just selling, its wines and whiskeys. 2010-01-23T05:15:00Z Two new books promise to help people improve their abilities with a generous mix of fascinating anecdotes and a romp through the academic literature. Getting the most out of one’s self 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Not that he doesn’t try, grasping for childhood anecdotes like the time in second grade that he mispronounced Niger and spurred a classroom lecture on civil rights. ‘Distances’ Review: Fumblingly Picking at the Knot of Race 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z She wiggled and flexed and twisted her limbs like a pretzel as she told anecdotes about Stone. Juliette Lewis, an ‘Imagination Freak Fairy,’ Knows Her Worth 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z She has a lively, accessible style, with frequent changes of pace and contagious enthusiasm for the little anecdotes and artifacts that bring history to life. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources So he has gone for deliberate disorder: Antifragile jumps around from aphorism to anecdote to technical analysis, interspersed with a certain amount of hectoring encouragement to the reader to keep up. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z Baldwin is in an especially chatty mood, lapsing into voices and surfing from one funny anecdote to the next. Review | ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ has finally run out of gas — but is that Seinfeld’s fault? 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z It also helps that each of the books, which document the frantic final months of Trump’s presidency, contains a seemingly unending list of you’re-not-going-to-believe-this anecdotes and revelations. The media scramble at the heart of Trump Book Summer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Her performance was filled with references, anecdotes and homage to black culture and black college culture, complete with drum lines, HBCU-like bands, mock probates and step shows. Beyoncé’s history-making Vogue cover: A black photographer to shoot cover, and she made it happen 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z At times, however, he could let his potent observations and anecdotes speak for themselves, rather than pounding in their meanings with 9-inch nails. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z She shared with the students an anecdote about how she wasn’t allowed to dance with her partner on “something called ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’” because the partner was white. Black dance legend, 85, returns to South L.A. high school with a message not all kids bother to hear 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Nearly every song was prefaced with a long and winding anecdote. Barbara Cook at the Wallis: Still doing what she does best 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z It’s the first comprehensive attempt at such a project, bringing together the anecdotes and eyewitness accounts of dozens of people who were part of the Obama White House, from cabinet secretaries to speechwriters. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Her stories are affecting, yet it is hard to evaluate memories and anecdotes. Looking Again at the Chernobyl Disaster 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z He had a booming laugh, a bottomless trove of anecdotes, and a lawyer’s precise way with words. Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher dead at 87 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z On her tour, Ms. Brown shares anecdotes about the animals as well as disturbing facts about meat and dairy production. Heads Up: Bed and Breakfast, Goats and Pigs 2012-06-08T18:13:28Z “It’s not so much anecdotes — although he has a broad knowledge of poetry, art and experiences of life. It’s more his particular vitality.” At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z One way to read “Eminent Outlaws” — a profitable way — is simply as an anthology of sly and sometimes X-rated anecdotes. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z But most days her boys come home happy, with anecdotes about activities they enjoyed. Kids are finally back at school. Parents are trying to reclaim their sanity. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Can you share an anecdote from your kitchen? How to cook like Pepper Teigen (and eat like Chrissy) 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z She crafted it from the stories of her life, asking friends to help her remember anecdotes and staff to help her write. Michelle Obama’s vacation is over. Now she’s claiming her own spotlight. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Tate looks back at the nearly two decades she spent in “Rosen-land,” weaving together anecdotes from those fraught group sessions with her quest for an integrated life. Review | Christie Tate’s ‘Group’ is a sometimes salacious look at the secrets of strangers 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Answering a question about her use of color, she digressed into an anecdote about Seurat and Monet: “When Seurat was asked what he thought of Monet, he said one word: ‘Intuition.’ Bridget Riley, Through Her Own Eyes 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s an anecdote she’s clearly enjoying sharing, now that her own cannibal film, Raw, is amassing almost as many reports of audience members fainting as awards and rave reviews. The female directors bringing new blood to horror films 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z It was boilerplate in content — there were no memorable personal anecdotes from their 18-year relationship. G.O.P. Convention Begins With Trump Written All Over It 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Apparently, all that’s required of these prisoners is that they shape remembrance of things past into entertaining anecdotes. Review: The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Bob meant to relay it as a playful anecdote, writing: “Max and his sons learned a valuable lesson that day. No matter what, the hair always looks great.” ‘His reputation will never recover’: the rape trial that took down Harvey Weinstein 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The report, by Albert Q. Maisel, featured scathing anecdotes of routine abuse, starvation diets, overcrowded bathrooms and cynical charades of treatment that mocked the very word. The ‘Insane’ Way Our Prison System Handles the Mentally Ill 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Above all, this anecdote indicates the electric quality of his presence; everything he did was memorable — his utterances, his parties. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Here are three shocking anecdotes from his post: “Of course Bill Cosby is guilty”: Three shocking revelations from “Cosby Show” actor’s tell-all 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z After a while, it becomes clear that what propels the novel isn’t an overarching plot or a conspiracy but anecdotes, episodes, and fantastical interludes that point to the book’s guiding ethos. Eugene Lim’s Uncanny Sense of What It’s Like to Be Alive Right Now 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z He told the anecdotes about meeting Williams and others about their shared romanticism and lifelong passion for comedy. Mort Sahl tells of time Robin Williams was his one fan 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z He tells long, winding anecdotes to enlighten and charm those around him but also forcefully hammers home his points to get what he wants. Review: Day-Lewis is tremendous in safe `Lincoln' 2012-11-07T00:19:14Z If they tell an anecdote about fox hunting, you’ve got to find the connective tissue to tie that anecdote to the next question somehow, even if the next question is related to the stock market. Armistead Maupin charms in Seattle 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z As for the quest for another TV series, it has led to some odd anecdotes. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z Others come from mourning: Dezi shares a disquieting anecdote with Selma about his deceased mother. ‘Learn to Swim’ Review: A Tooth Ache and All This Jazz 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z In 2001, Mr. Bologna and Ms. Taylor — in their 60s — wrote and starred in “If You Ever Leave Me … I’m Going With You!,” a Broadway show that consisted largely of anecdotes about their marriage. Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z “The Second” is written with verve, painted with broad strokes and dotted with memorable anecdotes and vivid quotations. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The truth of this statement on the Mindset List lies at the heart of my students’ approach to learning—and I happen to have another anecdote beautifully illustrating this very point. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z He's too modest to agree, but tells an anecdote that seems to sum up psychedelic London's openness to fantasy of all kinds. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z He's writing about his wife and begins asking himself whether that's wrong: to boil down her life to certain anecdotes, and whether that erases people as much as them being forgotten. How an adopted girl's tragic death became fiction: David Guterson on "bearing witness" 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The piece is narrated by Cooper who shares anecdotes from his life on tour, along with acoustic recordings of “I’m Eighteen,” “School’s Out” and “Poison.” Alice Cooper talks tap dancing, snakes onstage and his diary 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Cosby boasts an arsenal of anecdotes and tall tales meant to inspire black higher learning. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z These insights into her professional life are gracefully dropped into a text that seems to amble casually from one amusing anecdote to the next but in fact demonstrates Fraser’s careful attention to structure. Antonia Fraser’s ‘My History’: The biographer and mom of six looks back 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z A shocking crime, a careless anecdote and a bad decision will leave Ichiko’s career and personal life in tatters, giving birth to a dangerous alter ego bent only on retaliation. ‘A Girl Missing’ Review: In Two Minds 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z His family and the townspeople share their colorful, often bitter, anecdotes about his prophecies in the song. We’re Going to Talk About ‘Bruno,’ Yes, Yes, Yes 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Heavy reliance on members of the public recounting anecdotes slows things, and even with editing, there's too much dead air between laughs. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z Cusk occasionally cedes the narrative to long anecdotes relayed by friends and acquaintances — an echo of her recent novelistic strategy. Rachel Cusk Said She Was Done With Autobiography. These Essays Suggest Otherwise. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Her grammar is fine – Ann is a stickler for grammar – and her anecdotes make sense in that they have a beginning, a middle and an end. Strictly Ann: The Autobiography by Ann Widdecombe – review 2013-06-10T07:00:58Z Warhol Superstar Mary Woronov provides terrific anecdotes about the artists as outsiders, and how the band was received on their trip to Los Angeles. Apple TV+'s new Velvet Underground film is an irresistible portrait of extraordinary provocateurs 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In what was framed as a funny anecdote, my parents and aunt repeatedly talked about my grandfather's time guarding the "loony bin." Perspective | Ask Amy: Mentally ill family member struggles in silence 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Although repeated by the historian Ron Chernow in the Hamilton biography on which the musical is based, the anecdote has been debunked by musicologists who have studied the era. ‘Hamilton’ Is Known For Its Music, but What Did Alexander Hamilton Listen To? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z The book is full of comical anecdotes, including two injuries Stern sustained while in the throes of passion. ‘Swingland’ Offers Peek Into Kinky Sex Underworld 2013-10-17T14:36:25Z If so, consider this anecdote from the piece—one of many: Lois Weisberg (1925–2016) 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z My editors loved the journey the cookbook took, starting with me growing up in a foodie family and tons of childhood anecdotes, all the way to my role in the kitchen today. "Dumpling Daughter" celebrates a multi-generational love for Chinese cuisine 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The cause of all this excitement is 67 years old, acutely modest and delightfully chatty, able to turn almost any observation into an entertaining anecdote. An Undaunted Author Muses on His Unlikely Hit 2011-04-11T12:25:23Z Magary opens his profile with an anecdote of Fieri introducing him to his pet tortoise, whose favorite delicacy is dog feces. The Fieri-ssance is here: Sorry, Anthony Bourdain — it’s no longer cool to hate on Guy Fieri 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Ronson repeatedly bumps up against promising insights about the way shaming is inextricably linked to other social problems — like racism, for example — but moves on to the next anecdote instead of digging deeper. Books take two views on shame and its place in the modern age 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Jazz lore is filled with anecdotes about Charlie Parker’s fondness for country music. Obsessed with Duke Ellington, one man is determined to illuminate the jazz composer’s stunning output 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The book uses personal anecdotes and a lot of big-sister-ish encouragement. Laura Prepon Meditates on Motherhood and Clay 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z When there’s a lull in the conversation, share a non-kid anecdote. How to cope when everyone in your small work group is a parent, and you aren’t 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z What we get instead is an endless series of historical anecdotes about a heterogeneous collection of bad leaders ranging from democratically elected nationalists like Modi to genocidal fanatics like Hitler. Authoritarians From Mussolini to Trump 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Colorful zoological anecdotes and amusing domestic interludes provide a welcome respite from the author’s hard-charging argument. Not From Venus, Not From Mars: What We Believe About Gender and Why It’s Often Wrong 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Did you talk about specific performers with Carter, or have talk Carter and fill in the anecdotes? "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President": A loving relationship to music that "cuts through politics" 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z He is one of our few major dramatists who dares to make plays from the kinds of anecdotes about which we say at cocktail parties: “If this were a play, you’d never believe it.” Review: A ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ with Frozen Disney and Hot Lobster 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z If you don’t understand the absurdity of that anecdote, well, you’re not alone. Rising Animators Spring Into Motion 2013-07-26T21:11:41Z “And this was the best,” one character thinks, “the best days of her life. After this there would be only committees and fetes and recounting anecdotes to her fidgeting grandchildren.” Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z There are anecdotes about how the poor are gaming the system, driving around in Cadillacs. Detroit: A city in foreclosure 2013-02-14T21:06:00Z And I find it deeply troubling to consider what an enthusiastic reader might do with that anecdote, and faced with a baby who truly needs a fever reducer or antibiotic. Alicia Silverstone’s clueless vaccine advice 2014-04-23T14:31:00Z As a child, Dario would travel in a horse-drawn wagon around the countryside peddling vegetables with his maternal grandfather, who attracted customers by telling them stories spliced with news accounts and anecdotes about local events. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z If there’s one thing these anecdotes tell us, it’s that the phrase “Money talks” has never meant more than it does today. Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords 2014-04-22T16:03:00Z “I graduated high school as a Negro and a month later, I became Black”, my mother’s famous anecdote concerning her experience following the rebellion. “DETROIT”: Cleaning up the mess white people made or adding to it? 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Even Wolff’s anecdote about Trump being unaware of who Boehner was last year seems a bit suspect. Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it? 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The women of America are currently engaged in a notebook dump of epic proportions, releasing the anecdotes they’ve been carrying since puberty. Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z When writing the play, Uzan says he interviewed real politicians and used genuine quotes and anecdotes. President’s personal life plays out on French stage 2013-02-24T01:35:43Z One startling and sad anecdote describes his experience when a truck drifted into his lane and he remembers thinking that it would be better to let calamity strike. Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Critics may find the book preachy and Bennett's list of accomplishments and sunny outlook self-indulgent, but the celebrity and career anecdotes will likely appeal to fans. Review: Tony Bennett's meditations on show biz 2012-11-21T22:00:14Z It is an irresistible book, packed with insider anecdotes about a secretive association boasting such celebrated members as G.K. How many of the top 100 crimes novels of the early 20th century have you read? 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Soon, with nary a scruple, Caleb expands Avi’s anecdote into a full-length novel with enough commercial viability to land its unknown author a flashy agent. In ‘Last Resort,’ a Writer Turns a Friend’s Story Into a Smash Success 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z Serious Sondheim devotees will probably know many of the anecdotes here. Books of The Times: Sondheim?s Rhymes and Reasons 2010-10-21T17:45:00Z Paterno’s undergraduate years at Brown University are dismissed in three gauzy pages and two broad anecdotes, one of them about this middle-class Brooklyn boy’s being mocked by snobs for wearing an unhip white sweater. Books of The Times: ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach 2012-08-20T16:25:26Z Paisley begins the song with an anecdote about a black man taking offense to his Confederate flag T-shirt. A country song, assumptions _ and a racial outcry 2013-04-11T20:44:08Z Most of her anecdotes are either unattributed or ascribed to Kindle editions of recent books, with no page numbers given. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This includes a redesign to improve user experience and a system that allows contributors to more easily submit historic images and anecdotes. East of Borneo: Where Wikipedia goes for SoCal art essays 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Shearer’s best anecdote took the temperature of the initial reception. This Is Spinal Tap at 35: the faux-rockers reunite at Tribeca film festival 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z He discusses finding love again and shares existential anecdotes about buying a house and entering his 50s. What’s on TV Tuesday: Patton Oswalt and ‘Stargirl’ 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Guides often recommend reasonably priced restaurants in the area, and others are apt to chime in with anecdotes about good eating places. The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z But there’s a fuzziness to Guralnick’s old stuff, at least when he isn’t writing to the beat of a good anecdote. The Music Biographer Peter Guralnick’s New Book Covers Many Subjects — Including Himself 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z There are too many action-movie clichés without enough dramatic purpose, and interesting themes and anecdotes are scattered around without being fully explored. Movie Review: ‘Lawless,’ With Shia LaBeouf, a Film by John Hillcoat 2012-08-28T12:00:00Z The book brims with anecdotes, advice from Bobby, texts and even transcribed voice mail messages. 13 New Books to Watch For in March 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Their lives, the young men insist, should not be reduced to stories, to the sort of sentimental or sensational anecdotes that might captivate a college admissions office. Review: ‘Transfers’ and the Anguished Art of the College Interview 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Both the statistics and anecdotes support the idea the show was glamorizing suicide, experts said. Does Netflix have a killer problem? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The conversation, which includes some lively anecdotes, constitutes the play’s entire dramatic action, more or less. ‘Rameau’s Nephew’ and ‘Witch’: Ambitious shows that miss the mark 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z After Reagan responded with a wandering anecdote about an orphan and someone’s aunt, Carter bore in and attacked Reagan for opposing Medicare. How Ronald Reagan Triumphed 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Some of the anecdotes that connect them are cute, and some are alarming. Review: ‘Gone Missing,’ Now a Poignant Reminder of a Life Cut Short 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Chapman has unravelled the skeins of rumour, exaggeration and anecdote that have been wound so tightly around Barrett. Syd Barrett: A Very Irregular Head by Rob Chapman 2010-04-24T23:09:00Z I’ve always told anecdotes about my childhood, being an immigrant kid in Australia during the Yugoslavia wars and trying to fit in, but I never thought they would appeal to a larger audience. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Escape From Impending War Into the Unknown 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z During an interview conducted in the present day, he tells an anecdote about a bull kicking him the place where he was “operated on.” "Lorena" confronts the truth about the Bobbitts — and how America failed her 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s hard to resist any anecdote that starts with the kind of simple, ingeniously baited openers that Her provides. Review: ‘Underneath,’ an Embrace of Irish Ghosts 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z He always wrote clearly and carefully; he was learned and erudite, but never intimidating and often amusing, with an inexhaustible supply of anecdotes. Jacques Barzun obituary 2012-10-29T18:27:35Z At first, Denny asked interviewees to refer to "Tommy" rather than "your father" when he turned his camera on to record those anecdotes. 'The Wrecking Crew!' finally sets the records straight 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z After meeting the Coopers in a tiny BBC conference room, Allen decided that the banter between the siblings and anecdotes about their childhood should provide the core of the show. Drama Meets Tedium and a British Sitcom is Born 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z How much is Lenny a reaction to that intense criticism, including allegations of abusing your younger sister based on an anecdote in the book? Lena Dunham Thinks Even Conservatives Need to Read Her Newsletter 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Rife with amusing anecdotes, the fat tome codified traditional Italian cooking and remains an essential kitchen reference in Italy today. Artusi: a bar-centric eatery with historic roots 2011-09-08T20:31:05Z Like a lot of Hill's anecdotes, it's a sweet story, but also a slightly odd one. Jonah Hill: 'Having a bad day doesn't reflect who I am as a person' 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But those hoping for additional insight into Obama by way of fresh revelations or previously undisclosed anecdotes are likely to be disappointed. "Becoming" is a feel-good portrait of Michelle Obama that's a better concert film than biography 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Around these, Holmes is funny in longer anecdotes, some of which Hart clearly hasn't heard before. Radio head: Miranda Hart and Jon Holmes 2011-03-30T07:00:04Z Mr. Wasson’s book is filled with anecdotes about just how confounding “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” was from the start. Books of The Times: ?Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.? by Sam Wasson 2010-06-13T22:07:00Z “Book of Days” presents, in a days-of-the-year format, facts, anecdotes and amazing stories about writers and fictional characters, along with reviews, generous and scathing, and other ephemera. Q&A: Tom Nissley on his ‘A Reader’s Book of Days’ 2013-12-13T21:47:59Z Here is his commencement address to the Rhode Island School of Design, with trigger warnings, foul language, off-color anecdotes and generally brilliant advice. Roundup: Kapoor's controversial sculptures plus art school infatuation with 'sophomoric' disruption 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Seinfeld then launched into an anecdote about a recent interaction with his own daughter that apparently got under his skin: Jerry Seinfeld is a wimp: What his anti-P.C. tirades are really about 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But, as the saying goes, the plural of anecdote is not data. Freud, Nietzsche, Paglia, Fanon: our expert guide to the books of "The White Lotus" 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z So, I would let the men recount whatever anecdote had so impressed upon them that they needed to share it, and I’d probably fake laugh and say “that’s funny” at the end. New Childish Gambino Album’s Fatal Flaw: It’s Just Not Cool 2013-12-10T10:45:16Z The center of that remarkable anecdote is the director Eddie Sutherland, who discovered that his baggage was searched upon arrival and was sent packing from San Simeon. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z I was witty, sparkling, making her laugh with some well-chosen anecdotes. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z But I have to admit that his packaging of the anecdote is far more compelling. Benny Johnson got fired at BuzzFeed. You will believe what happened next. 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Finally, the Playgoerhas dug up an amusing anecdote about the state that British theatre existed in when it lived under the censorial quill of the Lord Chamberlain. Noises off: Forest Fringe is saved ? for the moment ? and cannibals aren't allowed to be gay 2010-12-02T15:47:00Z The house band, MP4, is made up of actual members of parliament who share their views and anecdotes throughout the show. Brits still waiting for full Brexit comedy dividend 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z And he often throws in anecdotes simply because they’re colorful, not because they advance any central narrative. Review: Erik Larson’s ‘Dead Wake,’ on the Sinking of the Lusitania 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z On the podcast, and in person, Sitman has a genial professorial vibe, spiking his learned explications with anecdotes about prominent figures, some of whom he knew personally. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z A thread started on Reddit, running to thousands of comments, including anecdotes of Reeves's incredible generosity. Loving Keanu 2010-06-13T19:00:00Z It’s the way we all like to remember our own crazy families, when enough time has passed to turn what might have once been painful into funny, affectionate anecdotes. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Excuse me, while I feel a dozen other anecdotes coming upon me. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z Huffington’s anecdote appeared designed to promote her two current hobbyhorses: corporate wellness initiatives and her belief that Kalanick, who has been widely criticized over his management of the company, is actually a suitable CEO.. Sex, naps and meditation: men caught misusing workplace breastfeeding rooms 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Throughout, he also leavens his narrative with famous catchphrases, proofs and anecdotes. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z To answer the question, star Kyle MacLachlan decided to share an anecdote about a legendary actor who tried to improvise on the Twin Peaks set. David Lynch Scolded Jim Belushi for Ad Libbing on Twin Peaks 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z After one long anecdote about some legal imbroglio, we realise we only have a couple of minutes left and Fogerty laughs awkwardly. John Fogerty: 'I had rules. I wasn't embarrassed that I was ambitious' 2013-05-29T11:58:15Z Anecdote by anecdote, she builds to a cautious analysis of how “even normal, careful, lawful policing often ends up compounding devastating social inequalities,” even if few officers display overt racism. The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Nelson shared a revealing anecdote wherein a journalist once described her as looking “more like a mother on her way to a PTA meeting” than a film director. Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Handel stretches and fleshes out these anecdotes into a calmly gleaming edifice of ocean-liner size and stability. Review: A Handel Oratorio Gave the People What They Wanted 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He spins down-home anecdotes about snakes and bulls just right, and there’s a steely edge and assured cadence to Willis’s voice that makes the stage all his. Review | The agony and ecstasy of LBJ are revived in ‘The Great Society’ 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The best anecdote was from Gwendoline Christie, who stars as Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones and will star in both the Star Wars and Hunger Games films this winter. Actresses Share the Best Fights and the Worst Stories of Sexism at Comic-Con 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z Doesn’t that anecdote explain nearly everything about Cave’s worldview, and the mythological universe he creates? Nick Cave’s dark, strange and sometimes hilarious odyssey 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z She expertly intermingled Broadway tunes, ballads and standards with biographical anecdotes. Lots to see and hear on Norwegian’s megaship, but good luck booking a restaurant 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z There is something different also in the way that these anecdotes are produced and consumed. Men behaving badly: why cinema's great hellraisers were a breed apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The new piece is a bit more structured as she performs the entire album in order, and the anecdotes and digressions are scripted. Review: In ‘Why’d Ya Do It,’ a Spiky Séance With Marianne Faithfull 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Between anecdotes, Toub references the works of Jung, Sigmund Freud, and other psychologists. Child of shrinks recalls his childhood in memoir 2010-08-18T18:36:00Z Female art dealers are often conjured in books about the postwar era in dopey anecdotes and observations from their male counterparts. Mad for Art: A Look Back and Up the Avenue at Women Gallerists 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The author’s memories of childhood, unlike a few of his West Coast anecdotes, have the brunt of the believable. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z No wonder Sally Field's Mrs Lincoln seems so frustrated at dealing with an institution rather than a husband, albeit an institution with a fondness for telling stories, who appears on occasion to rule by anecdote. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-06-08T23:05:08Z And, as Kramer amply demonstrates, reams of clinical anecdote, as well as a proper reading of the statistical research data, suggest otherwise. Should We Still Listen to Prozac? Peter D. Kramer Jumps Back Into the Antidepressant Debate 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The actor also told one regret-tinged anecdote about accidentally spurning the advances of Greta Garbo, when she had wanted to go home with him. Burt Reynolds: 'I regret turning down Greta Garbo' 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z And they have many anecdotes to flesh out that time. Review: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ Focuses on Another Apple Era 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He probably should be thinking about innuendo, controversy and base broadening but is still working on his gentlemanly affect and telling fish-out-of-water “Idol” anecdotes that end with him proclaiming himself country to the bone. Music Review: Scotty McCreery at the Beacon Theater 2012-11-25T21:50:09Z Heimbach, a retired Seattle doctor and former president of the American Burn Association, also said his anecdotes were not about different children but about the same infant. Fear fans flames for chemical makers 2012-05-06T05:00:00Z While Mr. Sounes’s book offers a detailed analysis of Reed’s music, as well as some flattering anecdotes, it is the dirt on Reed that has gained news media attention. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z In The Death of the Adversary, the more philosophical of Keilson's novels, an anecdote relayed to the narrator reiterates that point. Hans Keilson: "Genius? I'm not even a proper writer!" 2010-11-21T00:05:00Z Sexual anecdotes, after all, are good social currency. Karley Sciortino: the sex blogger and Slutever presenter redefining sexuality 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z There are sharp anecdotes about being visited in Vermont by Jack Nicholson, who smoked mysterious cigarettes, and about rooming as a young man with Ralph Ellison. Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z She is witty, sometimes relentlessly so, and jumps from saucy anecdote to saucy anecdote, rarely wasting time on anything so tedious as context. How Liz Taylor liked her pasta and other secrets from a ‘food detective’ 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z I want the book to be anecdotes, but mostly to memorialize those people, because people are forgetting.” Patty Duke doesn’t do auditions anymore 2014-02-26T22:17:16Z "I think probably the hardest thing about working with Bob is that everybody wants to talk to him. He is just a treasure trove of knowledge, anecdotes, great stories and wisdom." For Bob Newhart, it's always hip to be square 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z As the podcast hits its six-month anniversary and 35th episode, the “Bobbycast” has unwittingly become a treasure trove of unusually candid anecdotes and inside information about country music. How does country music really work? Bobby Bones’s podcast is an unlikely gold mine of insider info. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Many of you shared anecdotes we could all relate to. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Before the recommendations, an anecdote: Beginning my research for this column, I searched Amazon Video using the term “Christmas Movies.” O.K., Who Put the Nazi Zombie Under the Tree? 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z Alongside the delightful slapstick routines, and fond anecdotes, the show offers bittersweet memories of an unusual yet archetypal father-son relationship. Laughs, and candor, in 'Humor Abuse' 2011-10-07T17:30:06Z His “Diaries” are deliciously enlightening, full of backstage anecdote and intelligent candor on the art of theater, but they are the work of a practical man of theater and intellectual showman. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Show Me a Hero” extends its fascination for flawed humanity to the gritty projects, where characters are not merely anecdotes. ‘Show Me a Hero’: How one mayor won (and lost) the ugliest fight in Yonkers 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z A treasure trove of compelling facts, riveting anecdotes, and extraordinary characters, "For the Love of Books" is a book about books—and the inside stories about the people who write them. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z He asks if there are people with a similar background in the audience, and proceeds with anecdotes — about schoolteacher nuns and priests, both censorious and inspirational — he presumes will be familiar to them. Review: Reliving a Childhood Interrupted in ‘The Tricky Part’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Although the city was blithely obliterating its history, the anecdotes made me wonder if there was more going on in it than I admitted. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Though diversity studies tend to concentrate on numbers and percentages, personal anecdotes like the one Nyong’o related remind us that it does matter to viewers that they see themselves represented in the media. Give All the Awards to Lupita Nyong’o for Her Inspirational Speech About Beauty 2014-02-28T20:04:36Z It’s a shame there are not more personal anecdotes of this nature. The Legacy of ‘Les Misérables’: Charting the Life of a Classic 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Both feature myriad anecdotes of job searches, all with happy endings, but the journey there invariably proves daunting, circuitous and chancy. Don’t Panic, Liberal Arts Majors. The Tech World Wants You. 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Critics believed Beer’s anecdotes until 1990, when the scholars Stanley Wertheim and Paul Sorrentino reported that Beer’s archive contained rough drafts of letters ostensibly written by Crane that differed sharply from versions he eventually published. Caleb Crain: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The anecdote about “The Shield” story meetings features producer Glen Mazzara watching as two of his writers, young women, were “interrupted or shot down before finishing their pitch” almost every time they began to speak. In praise of interrupting: Why telling co-workers to monologue at each other isn’t a solution to the “speaking while female” problem 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As a guest was sharing an emotional anecdote, Clarkson loudly choked on the piece of wasabi stuck in her throat from the sushi-taco cooking segment. Kelly Clarkson has defied expectations before. Can she break the daytime talk show curse? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Highlights include classic artworks, and anecdotes from New York’s cultural history — and the story of the museum’s only benefactor to have been eaten by cannibals. Spare Times for Aug. 14-20 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z That’s one valuable anecdote in this exhaustive oral history, which traces the 16-year sprint that turned “The Daily Show” from a second-rate cable presentation into a vital institution in American politics and the media. When Fake News Was Funny 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The anecdote is a self-conscious corollary to a famous incident in Solnit’s earlier feminist work, “Men Explain Things to Me.” Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z For sure, the visual scheme illustrates canned anecdotes with stock footage and employs luxuriously bland hotel suites as settings for nonabrasive conversation. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Although it rambles off into a pointless anecdote about his father’s youthful piccolo playing, it’s a tender and touching sequence, rendered with piercing honesty by Mr. Simpson. 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z It’s a fair question, maybe even — given the unsolicited anecdotes I’ve been picking up from the men and women who are confident enough to talk about the issue – an important one. Getting off (line): I’m giving up online porn, and so should you 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z In the spirit of Johnson’s anecdote about Heidegger, I’ve often recalled that, in his diaries, Kafka reports sitting in a bar in Prague with his friend Max Brod after they’d left an opera. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Asked seemingly simple questions, he will plunge down rabbit holes of anecdote, strewn with dropped names. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z However, there are plentiful anecdotes online of passengers who say they’ve been threatened with lifetime bans and with the loss of all their frequent flier mileage. Whether You Call it ‘Skiplagging’ or ‘Hidden-City Travel,’ It’s Contentious 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z The creative team also consulted with a famous conductor whom they declined to name but who provided some revealing anecdotes. 'Mozart in the Jungle' plays it close to home in the classical world 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z One recalls the anecdote told by another of the star's friends of walking along Fifth Avenue with her one day and remarking how no one was taking any notice of her. The Life and Opinions of Maf the?Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z The anecdote is telling, with its implication that feminist thinkers object to sex itself, rather than to the portrayal of women as sex objects. “The House of God,” a Book as Sexist as It Was Influential, Gets a Sequel 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z She mentions an anecdote that Jason Segel – who plays the novelist in the movie – uses in his press interviews: David Foster Wallace was not a bro: Let’s not paint the writer with the same brush as his fans 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The stories range from sketches and anecdotes to complete and genuinely unsettling tales, somewhat alarming and very creepy. ‘Let Me Tell You,’ by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The rest of the programme was them in evocative settings, exchanging favourite Ford anecdotes and "whoppers". Radio review: Ford Madox Ford and France 2010-08-25T06:59:00Z There's a lot to read here: little framed anecdotes and apercues, instructions and bald statements. Lost in the Yoko Ono labyrinth 2012-06-18T18:03:42Z The structure of “Horse’s Mouth” is fixed: a participant relates a personal anecdote and then performs a standing phrase of movement, set or improvised, for 16 counts. Dance Review: ‘The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth’ at 14th Street Y 2013-01-13T21:22:55Z It’s a tantalizing interpretation of history, of one man’s nudging of world events, supported by anecdotes and memory if not historical scholarship. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z There’s a hallucinatory anecdote about a woman growing a tail, another about an embodied time machine. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s both medium and message, inevitably coded with information not only about the words being uttered — is this a poignant reflection, or a lighthearted anecdote? — but the identity of the speaker. Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and the Voices of ‘Resistance’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z There are also anecdotes about some blissful moments of leisure. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z But as I drive there I worry whether, by this point in his career, he might be sick of retelling anecdotes about Princess Buttercup and Nora Ephron. 'I want everyone to be happy': how Rob Reiner became a great director – and a political hero 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The outcome is a delightfully rum collection of anecdotes and arguments, some of them marvellously arcane in the most ludicrous navel-gazing Oxonian tradition, others touching on grander matters of state, foreign policy and high principle. Romantic contrarian 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z And in a scene reminiscent of a famous anecdote from Even Dwarfs Started Small, Herzog offers to swim across a river and back underneath the ice if his cast will tolerate a rare fourth take. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z Their exchange of first date anecdotes is framed to resemble extended versions of the infamous married couple interviews in "When Harry Met Sally," soundtrack of jazz standards included. Meeting "Harry & Meghan": the Sussexes launch the next stage of their strategic charm offensive 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z This is an important book, but one marred by the author’s tendency to pad the narrative with historical anecdotes of often marginal relevance. The Sniping Scientists Whose Work Saved Millions of Lives 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Luckily, the cake is more than just a fun anecdote; it's utterly delicious, too. How a buttermilk cake from Oklahoma won the 1955 World Series for the Brooklyn Dodgers 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z A colleague of the justice’s once said, “The anecdote that describes her best is that there are no anecdotes.” Review: ‘Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z There are legends and anecdotes, facts and mysteries, remembered, re-imagined, and altered, all told in service of the teller and heard, no doubt, the way I wanted to listen to them. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z If some of the anecdotes are affecting, others have a bracingly defamiliarizing effect, prompting you to think about abilities you yourself take for granted. Review | Spooky Action Theater’s ‘The Man Who’ marvels at the complexities of the brain 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z An unrelenting pop music soundtrack vests the story with a cheesy rah-rah sensibility, while the film’s breakneck pacing hinders proper reflection of any single event or anecdote. ‘Rebel Hearts’ Review: Sisters Act Up 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z It was one of many anecdotes — some humorous, some heartbreaking — that Boyle wove through a talk on his life’s work and philosophy. Father Gregory Boyle, author of new book, to Pasadena audience: Consider radical kinship and compassion 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Smith offers lots of funny anecdotes about his first-person research. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z She tells an anecdote about how she was a successful young churchgoer and was asked to preach in front of that audience and was a very good girl who memorized scriptural passages. "Oprah: Gospel of an Icon": Worshipping at the church of Oprah Winfrey 2011-03-13T18:01:00Z But beneath his off-the-wall and sometimes angry anecdotes, Mr. Jordan’s friends say he is sincere in his desire to provide a younger generation of gay men with the peer group that he never had. Leslie Jordan Adds Gaiety to His ?Trip Down the Pink Carpet? 2010-04-24T00:52:00Z A recent, gripping collection of anecdotes from former employees of Donald Trump’s competitive reality show “The Apprentice” highlights these dangers. The Kim Kardashian exception: Why her empire is constantly questioned—and Donald Trump’s isn’t 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z I got this anecdote from the blog Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, whose author, Jeremiah Moss, is a newsstand fan. The Newsstands of the Future Will Have No Newspapers 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z I love the Mudcrutch anecdote that also really inspired the album, because I'm a big Petty fan, and I think that era of his career is so fascinating. Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne: We're the only band "used to playing in space bubbles" 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Such anecdotes don’t seem to fit the placid and agreeable Charley Pride persona, and they don’t make it into “American Masters,” either. What Country Music Owes to Charley Pride 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z But Mary, who was also a graduate student of comparative literature, knows how to tell a story and choose an anecdote. All in the Family Dynamics: Donald Trump’s Niece on the President’s Clan 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Love, and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the recent profile of him in The New York Times. Popcast (Deluxe): Ice Spice’s Munchkin Drink + Jann Wenner Backlash 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Episode of the year: The midlife crisis special with Miranda Sawyer, purely for the anecdote that ends with Grace Jones inviting her back to her hotel room. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z A great storyteller, he can spin the tiniest anecdote about the musician’s life into a sidesplitting absurdist yarn. Music Review: John Pizzarelli Quartet at Café Carlyle 2012-05-30T21:21:30Z One might imagine that in nearly a half-century as a publicist in New York, Zarem might have had an anecdote about one Donald J. Trump. Remembering a relentless publicist, never too proud to beg 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Desi had a small role on One Tree Hill and tells moving anecdotes and strums away at his guitar. Girls Recap: Show Biz 2014-02-24T15:46:21Z From Page to Screen: Bridport's film festival Starts 10 AprilUntil 14 April frompagetoscreen.org.uk King tells this anecdote like a horror story, which I guess it is, since he famously hates Kubrick's adaptation of his book. Was Stephen King right to hate Stanley Kubrick's Shining? 2013-04-06T07:03:01Z Thankfully, the actor’s diverting new memoir reads as if Cumming is across the table, reeling off piquant and revelatory personal anecdotes over a meal and a couple of bottles of prosecco. Review | Alan Cumming gets chummy in his gossipy and insightful book ‘Baggage’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z He carefully explains each step of habit building, using science and — the best part — a slew of interesting anecdotes. 'The Power of Habit': vanquishing bad habits with good ones 2012-04-08T18:48:04Z And the performance was infused with amusing anecdotes about Sinatra and other Hollywood players. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Burchill tells stories as if she were writing them, which made it less of a conversation and more a series of entertaining anecdotes plucked from her mental Rolodex. Julie Burchill, Desert Island Discs: radio review 2013-02-15T07:00:52Z Then I would regale them with a few humorous yet tasteful anecdotes and as they laughed, their love for me would deepen. My last alcoholic seizure 2014-01-13T00:30:00Z How Sport Made the Modern World": "It is wonderfully rich in historical detail and anecdote – quotations make up a good portion of it – but the argument is left somewhat to emerge of its own accord. Critical eye: reviews roundup 2012-02-10T22:55:12Z He pontificated, chain-smoked and wheezed, retailed anecdotes, was charming and spellbinding and ghastly. Anthony Burgess didn’t read science fiction 2012-11-21T20:13:00Z With life now happening online, people flocked to social media to share traumatic anecdotes and frustrations with both the government and police forces. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, explains each of these shifts with humanizing anecdotes. Paperback Row 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Ashley C. Ford shares an anecdote rich with symbolism early in her memoir, “Somebody’s Daughter.” Ashley C. Ford’s Memoir Recalls Life With a Single Mom and a Jailed Dad 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z The stories they told were cocktail party anecdotes, amusing rather than dramatic or scandalous or especially revealing. ‘Models Never Talk,’ From Olivier Saillard, at Milk Studios 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z You can hear him relishing the challenge of bringing places to life for the listener with music and the kind of anecdotes and experiences most travellers never quite stumble upon. Radiohead 2011-01-19T08:00:03Z Did you polish up a few of your best “Mary Poppins” anecdotes? Dick Van Dyke on ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ and Dancing at 93 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z The writing is crisp and jargon-free, and the text includes many interesting anecdotes. What Really Happens Inside a Crime Lab? 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z This book presents the long, troubled relationship between the United States and Iran in a breezy and supple narrative, replete with poignant anecdotes, to posit convincingly that “antagonism between Iran and America is wholly unnecessary.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Below, he discusses Tommy Gavin and the twisted firehouse anecdotes that inspire the show’s scripts and breaks down a scene from the season premiere. Denis Leary on the Return of 'Rescue Me' 2010-06-29T17:51:00Z Paisley, a West Virginia native, begins the song with an anecdote about a black man taking offense at his Confederate flag T-shirt. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z Their anecdotes about Ray's creation of a filmmaking commune are vivid and affectionate, and they're punctuated with material from the film that is sometimes alarming but always informative. 'We Can't Go Home Again' and 'Don't Expect Too Much': A Nicholas Ray film, and the making of it 2012-02-09T21:56:05Z His anecdotes are vivid, well chosen and crisply told. 'Safe at Home: An Evening With Orson Bean' is a local treasure waiting for you to discover it 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Safranski — the author of biographies of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche , and a philosopher himself — focuses on Goethe’s evolution as a thinker and artist at the expense of narrative excitement and anecdote. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z How much intensity and suspense can you drain from a movie about cops and robbers without having the thing collapse into anecdote and whimsy? Review: Robert Redford Aims to Charm in ‘The Old Man & the Gun’ 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Live, however, the tracks from her debut album, Songs for the Ravens, are given a more playful spin with Baenziger introducing each one with carefree anecdotes and drunken psychobabble. New music: Sea of Bees ? Sidepain 2011-03-04T11:56:48Z Throughout the book are mentions of Gertrude Stein — Stein anecdotes, her pronouncements on food and cooking, her reactions to people and things. Review: ‘The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book’ 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Stritch famously loved a good time and a good story, so she probably would have enjoyed Jacobs’s gossipy text, studded with juicy anecdotes. Review | Elaine Stritch biography takes a gossipy, once-over-lightly approach 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z When a dramatic event occurs in one of his novels, it’s usually as a prelude to a string of rambling anecdotes or some lengthy existential musing. The Worldly Digressions of Javier Marías 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z That suggests something about how this narrative flows — rushing from one anecdote to another, swirling past and present, constantly swelling with poignancy. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Based on interviews and anecdotes, it’s an appeal to which some Haredim are themselves not immune. How the Artists Behind ‘Shtisel’ Brought Akiva’s Journey to Life 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z Its fifty thousand lines are mostly in Persian, but they are riddled with Arabic excerpts from Muslim scripture; the book frequently alludes to Koranic anecdotes that offer moral lessons. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z This definitive portrait of the French cubist poet is chockablock with entertaining anecdotes about his friends and confidantes, including Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z There are gripping anecdotes and keen observations, sometimes from his perspective and sometimes from those of others he interviews. What It Means to Be the ‘Token’ Black Kid in a Rich, White World 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z He told the group the anecdote as something of a joke. After 47 Years, the Emerson Quartet Has One More Weekend 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z One of the more touching anecdotes in the film was adman Ron Barrett's campaigns to help bolster the Automat during its decline. Director on the appeal of "The Automat," which was "the coolest cafeteria of them all" 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z I can add a very personal anecdote that sheds light on why this film was made. "Saint Omer" examines the darkest maternity taboos and the "language of the accused" 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z But beyond its collection of anecdotes and arcana, this humane book offers something bigger and more profound. ‘How to Hide an Empire’ Shines Light on America’s Expansionist Side 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Along the way, he provides a Cook's tour of the kinds of maths that touch our lives – everybody's life – each discipline wrapped up in its own anecdotes. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Russo introduces them one at a time, setting each man in a nest of youthful anecdotes that have been polished to a high luster. Review | In Richard Russo’s ‘Chances Are . . . ,’ a charming reunion unearths a chilling disappearance 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z There should be resentment, jealousy, emulation, curiosity, fascination, and a wider web of connections—history, tradition, lore, anecdotes, all sorts of indirect experience that looms as large in selfhood as do domestic routines and comforts. The Curse of the Pixar Universe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He will win both with wit as well as grit, drawing on his country-boy-lawyer anecdotes that leaven the movie’s weighty tone even as they send his exasperated listeners’ eyebrows through their hairlines. Lincoln: Spielberg’s Urgent Civics Lesson 2012-11-08T13:00:50Z The inclusion of that anecdote in “Idea Man” is of course a deliberate choice. Books of The Times: The Reclusive Other Half of Microsoft?s Odd Couple Breaks His Silence 2011-04-18T23:23:20Z Backstage anecdotes that demanded an enthusiastic delivery with a storyteller’s sense of delight sounded flat and rushed. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened,’ Insights into What Made the Musicals Sing 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Richards commences one anecdote by declaring, “I was dressed at the time in a diaphanous djellaba, Mexican shoes and a tropical army hat.” A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z That’s not without foundation, but this anecdote hints at the ways it’s overly simplistic. Secrets of “Blood Simple”: The devious neo-noir classic is more complicated than it looks 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z And a story that seemed so wonderfully expansive dwindles back into anecdote. Arts & Leisure: Film Favorites of A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis in 2011 2011-12-14T13:13:18Z Back downstairs, the tour veered a bit off-course when Mellene shared a personal anecdote involving a missing tooth, a kidnapped child and an arrest. The life of a hotel reviewer: Hang out in lobbies and bars, sleep in king-size beds 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z I had started the story as a “City life is bananas, huh?” anecdote, but something shifted then. He Cared About Me, So I Broke Up With Him 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z Given all that there is to say about James, what decisions did you make about the anecdotes to include? "Somebody's got to wear the leather pants": Rick James doc filmmaker on the infamous rock star 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z There are fewer folksy anecdotes and more of a focus on larger, longer investigations, including reports from US bases in Iraq, post-Katrina New Orleans and gangland Chicago. The Ira Glass / This American Life way of reporting the news 2013-06-23T18:30:03Z I spent most of that mishap crying and scared, so it never morphed into a funny anecdote. Please tell me about your delayed flight 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Like the film, the concert traced the history of the fabled California band, featuring personal anecdotes, documentary footage, “dazzling videos” and 27 songs, including hits such as “Take It to the Limit” and “Hotel California.” The Eagles have landed — again | Concert preview 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Grinning, they whisk you through enchanted avenues, each carefree laugh rehearsed and calculated, each anecdote sliding a little too smoothly into place. Magic Ripples Just Below the Surface in These Novels 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Parts of the concept don't knit together so well: spoken anecdotes about water and a light-projected list of water-related buzzwords seem like afterthoughts. Flow – review 2013-02-07T17:02:20Z It’s easy to see why he’s so popular: Cumming is delightful company, urbane, self-deprecating and mischievously funny, not above a dishy anecdote or a throwaway dirty pun. Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It Worked’ 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z But I don't know a single female without at least one enraging anecdote. Our crappy healthcare system is to blame for Goop 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z But for other readers, the familiar anecdotes that fill the first section of the novel verge on the tedious. In ‘Rodham,’ Curtis Sittenfeld Reimagines Hillary’s Life 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z In “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination,” a new biography by Brian Jay Jones, this anecdote is mostly played for a laugh. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z I can read anecdotes of backpackers in Afghanistan on a travel forum. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z It’s a breezy read, full of facts and entertaining anecdotes, but it doesn’t develop any thought-provoking insights. ‘Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage’ Reflects on Past Greats 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The man has so much charisma – and so many anecdotes – to burn, I can practically feel my phone melting against my face. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z These are anecdotes which only seem to support incorrect narratives about Trump's ascendance to power. Donald Trump and the “N-word”: Many voters would still support him — but not enough 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Pick a question out of a hat and chances are he’ll have an opinion, expressed in a curlicue of language and anecdotes that charmingly meanders its way toward the point. Jeff Goldblum Goes Wild With Wes Anderson and Thelonious Monk 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z My mother’s go-to anecdote about me as a child is that I hated dolls but would lovingly push my books around in my toy stroller. My kid doesn’t like books and it’s okay 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “The Friend” is thick with quotations and anecdotes from the lives and work of many writers, in a way that can recall the bird’s-nest-made-of-citations novels of David Markson. Mourning With the Help of a Great Dane 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z As part of the story, Lavine shared an anecdote about the time a naked guy with a snake showed up at graduation. Essential Arts & Culture: The new Marciano museum, the Center Theatre Group at 50, LACMA's museum-rethink 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Stories are nested in stories and crack open to reveal rumor and anecdote, prose poems, tendrils of myth. An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z She related that anecdote over coffee recently near the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where her latest evening-length piece, “I hunger for you,” will be presented, beginning on Wednesday, as part of the Next Wave Festival. A Dance About the Things We Carry (Sorrow and Rage) 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The problem, for the reader of “Free Women, Free Men,” is that she repeats the same arguments and anecdotes over and over again. From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Then there's an anecdote about her encounter with a paparazzo, whose sanctimony Long sends up, à la Stewart Lee, by drawing it out until its absurdity is ruthlessly exposed. Long time coming 2010-08-26T17:29:00Z It will help you match up the real people, anecdotes and events with the fictive ones. Is that Harold Bloom? Susan Sontag? ‘Muse’ brims with literary barbs. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Mr. McClatchy blends in shreds of anecdote and memoir, such as an account of his first meeting with the poet James Merrill, or recalling the letters he sent to Vladimir Nabokov while in high school. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z An aerial shot brings leaping strings, startling anecdotes from the past get banging brass. TV matters: Orchestral overkill 2011-08-03T19:30:02Z He also offers brief, personal anecdotes before each recipe, many named after some of his biggest hits. Q&A: T-Pain talks new book, embracing his musical legacy 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z And he finishes the set with anecdotes about his father that are both funny and penetrating. Brad Williams Returns to Showtime With ‘Daddy Issues’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But who needs statistics, when there are anecdotes? Sex, lies and teenage girls 2013-03-11T11:00:01Z Mr. Meyers told a rather long anecdote about his embarrassment over not being able to change a tire while on a romantic weekend with his wife. The TV Watch: Seth Meyers Takes Over as Host, With Ease 2014-02-25T17:59:16Z There’s a fascinating discussion to be had in that anecdote, about balancing the demands of work and domesticity, about deciding who gets to be the genius and who has to be the hausfrau. Perspective | Philip Roth and the sympathetic biographer: This is how misogyny gets cemented in our culture 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Merchant does the important work of excavating and compiling large numbers of details and anecdotes about the development of the iPhone, many of them previously unrecorded. The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth. 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z When we connect over Zoom to discuss the show, Temple and Skinner chime in on each others’ anecdotes and enjoy making each other laugh. Juno Temple: 'Real eroticism is about how somebody’s sweat tastes' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Yet as he discusses his experience volunteering at facilities run by Missionaries of Charity, the organization Mother Teresa founded, it becomes increasingly apparent that few of his anecdotes correlate with the reputation she enjoys. The West’s big lie about Mother Teresa: Her “glorification of suffering instead of relieving it” has had little impact on her glowing reputation 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Sides illuminates Gilded Age society, offering droll anecdotes of Bennett’s escapades in New York, Newport and Europe. Book Review Podcast: Abandon Ship! 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The notable exception to this came in the scores of life-upon-the-wicked-stage anecdotes that were a constant part of the rehearsal process, especially whenever Mr. Mamet dropped in. Out of the O.R., Back Onto the Stage 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Wakeman's voice is affable and engaging but every story has the feel of a well-worn anecdote rehearsed a thousand times down the pub. Forget Pippa Middleton's party pooper. Not all celebrity books are a bum deal 2012-11-15T11:45:50Z In the context of the return of Louis C.K., this anecdote has the feel of a twisted origin story. Louis C.K. Doubles Down on the Value of Saying the Wrong Thing 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Fish, who is separated from Kaye Voyce, a costume designer, with whom he said he is still close, rarely offers personal anecdotes in interviews, and friends describe him as private. He Changed ‘Oklahoma!’ But ‘Oklahoma!’ Hasn’t Changed Him. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Milton Shaw’s biography of his father, “Joseph T. Shaw: The Man Behind Black Mask,” chronicles the life of the pulp magazine’s editor, with anecdotes about such famous contributors as Dashiell Hammett and Erle Stanley Gardner. Review | Beyond the bestsellers: Lesser-known literary delights make perfect holiday gifts 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra and Gertrude Lawrence make cameo appearances in his anecdotes. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z In other words, it’s more of the same paranoid claptrap, substantiated with yet another recitation of the same tired anecdotes. Campus PC panic is getting ridiculous: Here’s what a “trigger warning” really looks like — and what it does for students 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z He shared an anecdote in which his cell would have protected him from a particularly emotional moment. How Louis C.K. became the Oprah of comedy 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z For his part, Levine writes as if he were allergic to anecdotes. Review | From Gourmet to Serious Eats, two food memoirs chronicle the pitfalls of old and new media 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Author Ben Sandmel, who lives and plays music in New Orleans and knows the city's quirky music community, tells K-Doe's story in lively detail and colorful anecdotes. Biography of Ernie K-Doe captures quirks, talent 2012-04-28T17:44:13Z In the meantime, New Directions has just issued this little compendium of brief anecdotes and odd factoids about Prague’s most famous author. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Today the feminist anecdote is shared less often in formal consciousness-raising groups than in informal ones, under hashtags and in comment threads online. Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Celebrity guests offer shop talk, backstage anecdotes, and personal reflection. Norm Macdonald’s Press Tour Was a Debacle. His New Show Is a Loose Hang. 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z He plans on playing the songs of his favorite blues and rock musicians, talking about his musical influences and telling anecdotes from his long career, the network said. ArtsBeat Blog: A Radio Gig for Bill Wyman, Erstwhile Rolling Stone Bassist 2011-11-16T20:12:22Z The anecdote comes to mind after he sees a picture of himself in 1965, striking the confident pose of a dandy and holding a copy of his first essay collection. Tom Wolfe Looks Over His Notes 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Over Zoom, Ms. Garcia was as warm and chatty as an old acquaintance; she wore a big smile and remained incredibly chill, readily sharing anecdotes about her days as a former gymnast and netball player. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s a masterful fusion of Al-Solaylee’s own observations, anecdotes from his interview subjects and analysis of data and statistics. What it means to be brown: Cheap labor, scapegoated Muslims and exploited immigrants, from Canada to Qatar 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Tavernise’s piece has been criticized for its reliance on flashy anecdote—Trump’s approval ratings, after all, have already reached a historic low. The Perils and Possibilities of the Never-Ending Protest 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Some of her extended family were not so lucky, and her debut novel Ru – originally published in French – recounts their stories in shards of semi-autobiographical anecdote. The future of fiction 2012-08-24T07:00:06Z Although Judge narrates each episode, the bulk of the narrative is told by the people who knew the musicians best – band members, childhood friends, relatives, all sharing their anecdotes. People opened up because I'm the Beavis and Butt-head guy': Mike Judge on his new funk direction 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Naturally we took full advantage, with Andrew Miller and Alexei Sayle holding the bloggers down while the rest of us took turns to pummel them with edifying and hilarious anecdotes drawn from our own lives. Chris Cleave: what happened when authors and book bloggers met for lunch 2011-02-21T12:56:34Z In a rare 2009 interview with "60 Minutes," Buffett shared an anecdote from his early days in Nashville to illustrate what motivated him to succeed. Parrotheads, rejoice! Jimmy Buffett's breezing into town 2012-10-18T20:18:14Z I don’t need the image of a pampering Italian mother to help me finish the dish, its many fine layers suggestive of lasagna, but there’s no denying the power of a good anecdote. Casolare review: A little piece of Puglia moves into Glover Park 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z The feature piles on plenty more anecdotes about parenting the third in line to the British throne, including the tot's bout with colic. Prince William shares George's water woes during scuba-club visit 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the most memorable anecdotes that Greenburg unearthed tend to undermine his thesis — such as the time Jackson called his lawyer in the middle of the night to complain about a broken pinball machine. ‘Michael Jackson, Inc.: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Billion-Dollar Empire,’ by Zack O’Malley Greenburg He says it is "healing" to see some of the more painful anecdotes he shared turned into comedy. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z Her arrival had been preceded by a long anecdote, in which Michael described how, many years ago, he discovered an essay in which Andy detailed plans to fake his death. Comedian Kaufman 'faked his death' 2013-11-14T11:59:34Z So I’ll reproduce a few anecdotes, chosen pretty much at random. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z They’re also full of anecdotes about the same films that Mr. Bart remembers best. Books of The Times: Near the Top at Paramount, Handling Players and Egos 2011-05-11T22:55:27Z BRITT: My book is an attempt to replicate on the page what it’s like to talk to me in real life when I’m conflating weird opinions about science fiction with random personal anecdotes. “An emotional Benjamin Buttoning”: The inside secrets of 6 new books that will top your fall reading list 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z As her wine glass empties, Westwood closes an interview with an anecdote. Westwood blurs lines of fashion, art, culture 2011-04-20T22:01:06Z When you gather some of the top creative names behind "The Simpsons" in one room, a reporter's questions tend to get buried under rapid-fire one-liners, overlapping anecdotes and boisterous laughter. 'The Simpsons' set to invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z We are supposed to find this anecdote charming, I think. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z Haru is far from alone in being swayed by anecdotes from his peer group. 'Worry is contagious': the vaccine-hesitant parents putting children at risk 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Hong intertwines these anguished anecdotes with a finely spun narrative architecture—which contrasts daringly, even giddily, with the simplicity of the sequences that it comprises. “Grass,” Reviewed: Hong Sang-soo Listens in on Painful Confessions at a Coffee Shop 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Her outsized personality was the stuff of countless cocktail conversations among New York's theater set, which never seemed to tire of Stritch anecdotes, whether delivered by the actress herself or her many costars. Elaine Stritch, 89: Five noteworthy performances 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z When he tries to convince the conference's keynote speaker that he's Martin, by telling him intimate parts of his life, the other Martin rattles off the same anecdotes simultaneously. Unknown Review: Liam Neeson Gets Re-Taken 2011-02-19T02:45:00Z That’s because “Spencer” is not just an ordinary film with ready-made anecdotes about co-stars or preparation, although there was much of that to get the mannerisms and accent down. ‘Spencer’ star Kristen Stewart is done hiding her life 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Over the weekend, an old anecdote Biden likes to turn to resurfaced about his time lifeguarding at a public pool serving a predominately black neighborhood in Wilmington, which is now named after him. The Joe Biden wokeness paradox: Can black voters support him and also hold him accountable? 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Before we even sit down, he tells me a well-rehearsed anecdote about Cranston texting him the day after shooting ended to say: “I miss you already.” Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul: ‘I miss Jesse Pinkman’ 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The “archery” involves fictional, bow-and-arrow-centric anecdotes Hark passes off as history during his lectures, including apocryphal tales of folk hero William Tell’s prowess as a marksman. Review | In ‘Hark,’ a lifestyle guru isn’t even buying his own shtick 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z However off-the-wall, these aphorisms and anecdotes are more comprehensible than a dance by Ms. Hay. Review: Deborah Hay’s ‘Match-Play’ Fuses Dance and Theater 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z And, tormentingly, there are only a handful of anecdotes about his life. Glory be to Gossaert 2011-02-22T15:05:42Z Here are a few notable highlights and anecdotes: Grammy Awards: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis big early winners 2014-01-27T01:01:00Z Far from being an extended anecdote, the piece awakens our memories of youthful failure. Hymn/Cocktail Sticks – review 2012-12-17T17:49:48Z Between songs, she was a maverick and charismatic presence, given to charming non-sequiturs and veering into seemingly inconsequential anecdotes with the self-mockery and timing of a natural comedian. ?l?f Arnalds ? review 2011-03-04T18:05:39Z Send me your thoughts, anecdotes, and recommendations about children and music; I will try to work them into future columns. How a classical critic introduced her child to music (not very well) 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “I don’t think that there’s a huge amount of information on that,” High tells TIME, noting that her own experience with the sitter reading to her son is just an anecdote, not research. Read to Your Baby, Say Doctors — But Which Books? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Too keen to fill silence with anecdotes about myself. Blind date: ‘I kept coughing into my elbow like a sick Victorian prostitute’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Bringing it home is Sudeikis' manner as he shares Ted's folksy anecdote: it contains not a whit of vanity or gloating at his adversary's downfall. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In her novels, she builds tremendously detailed fantasy worlds; in her nonfiction, she curates a magpie’s nest of fragments — critical theory, song lyrics, personal anecdotes — into insightful ensembles. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z While there are amazing anecdotes here, there is little to catch the eye or ear. ‘Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People’ Review: A Flair for Journalism, Subdued 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z He was more affable and voluble over lunch, offering anecdotes about his time in the Royal Air Force in 1944 and his Islington childhood. My geriatric “catfishing” cautionary tale 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z He's a proper first-class comedian, with a real flair for translating seemingly mundane anecdotes into hilarious set-pieces. This week's new live comedy 2012-10-12T23:05:51Z Only a dealer would go to such lengths to identify art and bring home dramatic anecdotes, Mr. Mould said, adding: “I don’t know that anything brings oxygen better to the brain than financial risk.” Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z The play is dominated by Charlotte's twinkly, unreliable anecdotes, issued by Garrison in an admirably fluid blend of English and German. In 'I Am My Own Wife,' a character to remember 2012-02-09T22:08:03Z Yet somehow the questions did reflect our own weaknesses and strengths, and we had fun choosing the questions and finding anecdotes to share with our fans. What’s Love? Don’t Ask the Answer Couple 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z These anecdotes are tinged with tragic mourning or thin-lipped disapproval in a way they are not for the guys. Men behaving badly: why cinema's great hellraisers were a breed apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z To the literary biographer, binges and benders are a godsend – a chance to recount lurid anecdotes under the guise of earnest psychoanalytic enquiry. Why do writers drink? 2013-07-20T07:00:14Z Her favorite pastime is collecting behind-the-scenes anecdotes of the rich and famous and sharing them with a public avid for such unfettered access. Kathy Griffin is in wickedly funny form at the Taper 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z No offence to Kristen Stewart or whoever it is, but anecdotes from a movie set are going to look a little wan once he has been asked what he’s been up to recently. The Mooch makes the move into his natural habitat – late-night television 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z They relate nauseating racist anecdotes from Lamar’s encounters with white Nebraskans, many of them human resources workers. New & Noteworthy, From Brilliant Essays to Stupid People 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z While on the topic of Mr. Bard, Mr. Rips shared this anecdote. Childhood Tales From the Chelsea Hotel 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z Personal anecdotes and previously unseen family photos will offer a peek at how Mrs. Obama handles the start of the school year. First lady tapped as women's website guest editor 2012-08-13T13:32:07Z A summary of the story — an abstract, as it might be called in a learned journal — would barely rise to the level of anecdote. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z I raised my storage crates from the basement, pulled off the lids, and "Oh, man, he was my favorite," and "Do you remember when?" anecdotes filled the room. He-Man: Most powerful Gen X unifier in the universe 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Occasional nouns escaped her, proper names eluded, anecdotes folded up in the middle, broke in half and reversed direction as she disembarked one train of thought and boarded another. Solving the Many Mysteries of What Became ‘Carol’ 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z There are images taken decades ago, pictures from places as far apart as China and Iceland, anecdotes such as: “Walked a 200km pipeline route at 6 months wearing lots of elastic waisted pants.” Pregnant in the field: have trowel, will travel 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Redmayne: The "Theory of Everything" star and lead actor nominee continued his charm offensive with an anecdote about trying to get his shiny new Golden Globe through airport security. Oscar nominees luncheon: Memorable quotes from Redmayne, Moore, Keaton 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Too often, these anecdotes convey the notion that moments of political change were unplanned, fateful, driven by some invisible hand of social justice. Protest doesn’t work — except when it does 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z In this rumination on intersecting injustices, the words “Who Speaks? Quotidien Fragments: Race” appear on a computer screen, introducing a series of typed anecdotes. Review: Yvonne Rainer’s Swan Song Is Not Quite a Grand Finale 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Collections like this one — volumes of stray letters or anecdotes — tend to be hobbled by built-in defects. Books of The Times: ?New York Diaries: 1609 to 2000? - Review 2012-01-19T23:09:58Z No extraterrestrials here; just an assortment of interesting anecdotes. Critic’s Notebook: Science Channel and NASA in Marathon on Life Beyond Earth 2014-02-28T21:10:43Z And, yes, Mr. Plummer does oblige with the occasional personal anecdote about his roistering among boldface names. Critic’s Notebook: Christopher Plummer and John Hirsch Solo Shows at Stratford 2012-08-21T21:46:20Z Programmers have anecdotes of singers who come through the station who aren’t ready for prime time, or who behave inappropriately. ‘Radio tour is not for the weak’: Inside the first step to country music stardom 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z “Would It Kill You” is well stocked with similar oddities and anecdotes culled from Mr. Alford’s research into the subject, as well as from random chats with friends and acquaintances. Books of The Times: ?Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?? ? By Henry Alford ? Review 2012-01-03T22:29:05Z After repeatedly being asked to provide examples and anecdotes that any seasoned publicist would know were required for an article like this, a representative from Lede sent a bullet-pointed list of accomplishments. They’re Some of Hollywood’s Top Publicists. Just Don’t Ask Them Why. 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Instead, Addie’s anecdotes are mostly charming, sweet tales one might hear while trapped with grandma for an afternoon in the retirement-home dining room. Book review: ‘The Boston Girl,’ by Anita Diamant 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z I included that anecdote because it was such a surprising response. “It was like an overdose of porn”: Chris Offutt reflects on writing about his family’s big secret, after his father’s death 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s a greatest-hits album of Jones and Wynette anecdotes, some presented with style and some perfunctory or maudlin, strung together between songs. ‘George & Tammy’ Review: We’re Gonna Hold On (Until We Don’t) 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Using you as a go-between with a piece of unsubstantiated anecdote isn’t acceptable. Dad left, and my aunt told me a secret about him | Mariella Frostrup 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z There were well-worn anecdotes about her youth on Long Island and her first pre-sobriety years in New York, but beyond those stories there was always something new to learn about her. Christine Who Fed the Hungry 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z A little anecdote: Last week, I interviewed two plumbers for a small job at my house. If MAGA Hats Are Business Casual, Why Isn’t My Biden Shirt? 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z The book is rife with anecdotes of insensitive or racist comments he heard during his training, experiences that will no doubt feel familiar to many writers of color. For More Inclusive Writing, Look to How Writing Is Taught 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Most of Winchester's anecdotes therefore unfold on land. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z This anecdote delighted Oliver beyond words, partly for the comedy, but mainly because he understood why Darwin would spend eight years with Cirripedia; Oliver was equally obsessed with invertebrates. A Year Without Oliver Sacks 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z If you’re sharing an anecdote, it shouldn’t run much longer than 50 words, but obviously pithy li’l quips are welcome as well. Style Invitational Week 1248: Fess up! 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The anecdotes and occasional gossip item hewed to the same contours with the same takeaway: Wow, what a nasty guy. Perspective | Scott Rudin’s bad behavior was just another Hollywood cliche until a new generation said time’s up 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Moran shared a plethora of amazing - and brutally honest - anecdotes in the award-winning How to Be a Woman, a book she says was "a pleasure and a privilege" to write. Caitlin Moran: Making feminism fun 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z “Predictably, little of the fact and anecdote in Mann’s 500 pages of text is new.” Barbra Streisand Memoir Coming in 2017 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The answer to that can be seen in the story’s first anecdote, about the woman Quin meets in Central Park. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Today, locals still trade anecdotes about spotting Mr. Cohen at his favorite restaurants or having a friendly chat with him along The Main, Montreal vernacular for Boulevard St.-Laurent, the Plateau’s cultural artery. Exploring the Montreal That Leonard Cohen Loved 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The anecdotes from her career on American telly, meanwhile, have a certain gossipy appeal. Margaret Cho ? review 2011-08-08T17:30:02Z Afraid of heights, he dreaded the hairpin curves and steep descents that his route imposed and didn’t want this phobia to bar him from vistas that might enrich his troves of anecdote. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z I used to pepper my conversation with anecdotes about my mum. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z I relate this anecdote to explain my state of mind that first night. Lost in Java 2011-05-06T20:26:42Z Such anecdotes may help explain why Schumer has no boundaries sharing intimate details, but she doesn’t get too analytical in these pages. Amy Schumer’s new book has hilarious moments, but it’s dark, too 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z While these all make for good anecdotes, it seems unlikely that they can have helped tackle RSI, and would certainly have little effect on the virulent, post-internet strain that is on the rise. RSI: a very sore point for writers 2010-09-17T10:21:00Z But “The Argonauts” doesn’t share that interest — I think of the latter as more about suspended and continued anecdote than individual entries or propositions, which is the form of “Bluets.” Sasha Frere-Jones and Maggie Nelson discuss writing and form 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z The anecdotes we hear about the characters’ lives feel meager and cursory; they digress from the professional show-and-tell sequences without complementing them in a wholly revelatory way. A lesson in geography, typography and stenography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z With the electro-rock beats of DJ Frigid blaring, young men in skinny leather pants drank tequila, danced and exchanged anecdotes about their encounters with the couturier. T Magazine: Montreal Toasts Gaultier 2011-06-17T17:00:12Z I wished for the same tightness in the first half of the book, where West is trying to layer in too many anecdotes and pop-cultural references when her own opinions would suffice. Here Comes Lindy West, and She’s Holding a Broom 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Dad shared photographs and anecdotes as if Tim were a troubled friend he had lost touch with after adolescence. Timothy McVeigh, my dad and me: How the Oklahoma City trial came home with us 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Along with the usual dry provenance notes, Sotheby’s March 10 design catalog gives spicy anecdotes about condition problems and family disputes. Antiques: A Sotheby?s Catalog With Some Juicy Details 2011-02-24T22:29:12Z When cookbooks include personal anecdotes, they invite a feeling of connection by mimicking the personal history that is collected in a recipe box. Betty Crocker turns 100 – why generations of American women connected with a fictional character 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z One of the more interesting anecdotes involves a Samoan guest making a canoe and taking it for a paddle around Newport Harbor. Vodka-spiked oranges and tamale lessons: Irvine's lost commune 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z It goes from anecdote to anecdote somewhat, but they’re all good anecdotes. Five great published diaries 2012-07-16T11:00:00Z Dramatic anecdotes and striking juxtapositions are more plentiful than deep analysis or striking insights. Review: In ‘Enemies,’ There’s No Doubt Who’s the Enemy in Chief 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The man was my ex-husband, and he was telling me an anecdote in the early hours that had us both in fits of laughter. ‘We're very close. We couldn't not be’: the secret to a friendly divorce 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Flipping through the anecdotes, the bar charts and the checklists, it’s nearly impossible not to self-diagnose. Welcome to the golden age of social awkwardness 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z But after years of working in kitchens with handsy, misbehaving men, she had remembered an anecdote from Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential,” in which the famous chef struck back after being grabbed repeatedly by a colleague. Rape in the storage room. Groping at the bar. Why is the restaurant industry so terrible for women? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Her prosecutorial way of attacking me for holes in my anecdotes scared me. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z The book unfolds in chronological order, the narrative bustling with telling anecdotes and clashes between political and law enforcement figures. 'Blue' delivers arresting portrait of L.A.'s policing problems 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Blog post after blog post of kid anecdotes. Dear Internet: Sorry about that motherhood post 2013-02-03T02:00:00Z Neither those statistics nor the anecdotes are true of every home headed by a single parent. Motherlode Blog: Does Championing Marriage Exclude Single Parents? 2013-01-29T23:41:21Z But the real contest looms, one in which the conventional politician’s tools—a firm grasp of policy, a poignant anecdote from the campaign trail—will be of little use. How to Beat Trump, According to Experts on Middle-School Bullies 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Not only does Ms. Sanders fill it with her own tried and true family recipes, but she also includes anecdotes about growing up on and working the family farm in Filbert, South Carolina. Sweet potato and orange are a perfect combination in your new favorite Thanksgiving pie 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z With time, such stories inevitably emerge as amusing anecdotes about a period of life that you don’t regret but – now that you live alone – you are glad to put behind you. How was it for everyone? The rules for sex in a flatshare 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Gottman uses anecdotes and dialogues from years of research at his "Love Lab" near the University of Washington to explain "complex scientific ideas into insightful and practical advice," says the book jacket. NW Books: 'What It Is Like to Go to War,' 'Skyjack' 2012-09-10T20:40:04Z In addition to the interviews with Morrison, your film features anecdotes and observations from a dozen of Morrison’s colleagues and contemporaries. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z While I admittedly find Howe and Strauss a little bit rah-rah about the Millennials, the writers’ combined approach of research and anecdote is thorough, effective, and not inaccurate to my experience. I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z In the last few pages of his new essay collection, “Calypso,” he deploys a killer anecdote that most attention cravers would use up on a first date. Review | After nine books, what more could David Sedaris have to say? A great deal. 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z The anecdotes, some of which are funny, some horrifying, are edged with a bleak sense of absurdity and shadowed by the rapid onset of oblivion. ‘The Irishman’ Review: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, in a Somber Key 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Well-intentioned dramatic readings from Eco’s writings are punctuated with fond anecdotes from his children and a grandson that burnish the image of Eco as the extravagant scholar. ‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Great premise, but the poem seems paid by the word, the poet tracking every gesture for an anecdote never as necessary as his dedication to nuance suggests. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Yet the pictures come from anonymous photo albums the artist collects, and the comments scattered among the sewed and inkjet-printed assemblages include anecdotes from relatives and friends — as well as a few lines from T.S. In the galleries: Artist Francie Hester’s pieces show allure of the old “It’s always a great pleasure to talk to older people in Russia, to hear their anecdotes.” Van Cliburn, American Classical Pianist, Dies 2013-02-27T20:06:33Z The founders’ research at Boone County’s library revealed treasures like the diary of Lewis Loder, a clerk at Petersburg for 30 years, whose anecdotes and wisdom are shared on plaques throughout the distillery. Savoring Bourbon, and Its Storied History, in Northern Kentucky 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z The verbal leitmotifs he establishes early on circle back into his anecdotes in surprising and satisfying ways. Review: In ‘Kevin Hart: What Now?,’ a Stadium Brimming With Brash Stand-Up 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Some of it isn't, such as the suggestion that you include small anecdotes "like the time you saw that chap from Gardener's World in Waitrose". Keeping my distance from the Stones and how to write a Christmas circular 2012-11-30T14:40:48Z When and why did an experiment that for fifty years was perceived as a subsidiary anecdote at best metamorphose into an epoch-making moment? The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z Another anecdote described a visit to Liza Minnelli’s Los Angeles house with Michele Lee for a lunch date that didn’t take place. Review: In ‘Feel the Bernhard,’ Sandra Feels Less Menacing 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z A rambling work that tries to stretch an anecdote into an epic, “Amadeus” too often opts to interpret itself through the gaseous musings of Salieri. But does it deserve an encore? 'Amadeus' returns to South Coast Rep 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Stephen peppers the chapters with medical anecdotes of various patients whose pathologies underscore how a healthy respiratory system should behave. No Better Time to Consider Our Lungs 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Aptly reading the gender dynamics of the room at that time, she wryly concludes the anecdote: “I think I’m Jackie Robinson.” Thulani Davis and the Secret History of Women Writing Album Liner Notes 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z As far as British film is concerned, there is one really significance effect from the commercial view, and here I must permit myself a small anecdote. Oscars 2011: We have the success, but what now for British film? 2011-03-01T08:21:30Z The anecdotes are translated by William Murray Golf employees into concepts that the brothers refine — say, switching a print’s miniature golf carts to Eisenhower-era ones. Bill Murray and His Brothers Venture Into Golf Wear 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z The greatest pleasures of this book are the historical anecdotes, moments and quotations that MacMillan marshals on nearly every page to illustrate her points. A Historian Explains What Civilization Owes to War 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Sadly without illustrative anecdotes, he tells us that academicians still "mind passionately where their works are hung, because this is a visible manifestation of their standing among their peers". The Royal Academy: a story of sulks and squabbles 2013-01-04T22:55:14Z Banks says he’s taking this huge opportunity “one day at a time,” and cites an anecdote from Smith’s autobiography, “Will,” about his father assigning him and his brother to build a wall brick by brick. New fresh prince Jabari Banks is ready to conquer ‘Bel-Air’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z She talked quickly and semi-decipherably between songs in a thick Cockney accent, snapping her long fingers through various anecdotes. Old soul Adele captivates with strong voice, natural charm 2011-08-13T20:50:33Z Over the years, my anecdotes about him have lost potency; upon seeing a photo of us from back then, a 20-something recently asked, “Who is that, your uncle?” Go ask Alex: How I learned Alex Trebek really does have the answers 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Treuer’s book, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee,” is a colorful, thoroughly engaging mix of history, memoir, reportage, interview, anecdote and observation. Review | Grab your ear buds: Here are three great audiobooks to distract you from reality 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Among the celebrity cameos sprinkled through her anecdotes, Ethel Merman, her co-star in the movie “There’s No Business Like Show Business,” loomed the largest. Music Review: At Feinstein?s at Loews Regency, Mitzi Gaynor?s ?Razzle Dazzle? 2010-05-19T21:47:00Z His world doesn’t end with a bang or even a whimper but with an anecdote, cheerfully delivered. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z And the proceedings were stacked with clips and anecdotes perfect for late-show monologues and social media sharing, which generate a secondary audience and free advertising. The Jan. 6 Hearings Did a Great Service, by Making Great TV 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Styled like very short documentary films, the ads featured Botox users — a widower, a single mother, a drag performer — telling touching, sad, ultimately redemptive anecdotes. The Art of Botox 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z And while it is reputed to be painless and require no downtime, anecdotes online from former patients are starting to pile up, detailing side effects such as severe pain and reduced mobility, lasting for weeks. The Cruel Paradox of Linda Evangelista’s Fate 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z Andrew Mueller One of the most notorious anecdotes in jazz concerns how Miles Davis was beaten up by a police officer outside a nightclub. Tonight's TV highlights: Asian Gracefully 2011-03-04T00:05:02Z The most famous anecdote – or at any rate the most revealing – concerns his reaction to seeing the first cut of Coppola’s The Godfather. Robert Evans: eloquent and passionate midwife to the Hollywood new wave | Peter Bradshaw 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z He illustrates that with an anecdote about walking in on his mother when she’d just taken recreational drugs. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Bill & Ted’ and ‘An Easy Girl’ 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As I wrote articles on first dates and break-ups, I interviewed psychology professors and therapists, shamelessly peppering the conversation with anecdotes from my own life. Modern Love: Sometimes It?s Not You, or the Math: Modern Love 2011-09-23T17:39:22Z "The Turin Horse," a slow and solemn black-and-white film set in a 19th-century wilderness and inspired by an anecdote involving philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, displays Tarr's uncompromising, atavistic commitment to darkness, difficulty and lapidary pictorial sublimity. 'The Turin Horse': Facing the abyss in slow, black-and-white film 2012-04-19T20:22:06Z The arc of “Wild Minds” is appropriately weird, full of high-flown aspirations and zany anecdotes. ‘Fantasia,’ ‘Snow White,’ Betty Boop, Popeye and the First Golden Age of Animation 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z But he also made light of the headscarf obsession in Russian Orthodox churches and shared a favorite anecdote. Moscow's New Dress Code: Less 2010-08-23T18:10:00Z Someone relates an anecdote about a marathon runner who had to get a faecal transplant from her fat niece, and it made the marathon runner fat. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z And there was no mistaking the impact of the play’s shift from anecdote to insight, as all of Scrounger’s paths to recourse reach a dead end. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z The show is a lighthearted autobiography in which Mr. Tune, accompanied on piano by Michael Biagi, breezes through 20 songs stitched together by amusing anecdotes and brief tap routines. Music Review: Tommy Tune at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-22T21:31:29Z Any book that promises a behind-the-scenes look at the fashion industry and also serves up an Anna Wintour anecdote is sure to attract readers. ‘Tales from the Back Row’ review: Inside the fashion industry 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z But everything I have in my house is connected to a certain specific anecdote in my life. He Collects the Art of Fellow Cuban Exiles, but Miami Is Home 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z She relays an anecdote about Martin Luther King Jr. confiding in her that he was as a Trekkie. ‘The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker’ Review: An Unwieldy Ride 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Beauregard’s additions to the anecdote do not increase its credibility at all. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z I read Bering’s anecdote completely differently, because I’m more likely to pay attention to the forest than the trees. Don’t trust the religious 2012-07-02T18:20:00Z Social convention forces the group to beg them to continue, but the anecdote can then only be received with feigned relish. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z It features a wide range of scary, humorous and absurd cultural and political anecdotes. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z “Zimmer is an astute, engaging writer — inserting the atmospheric anecdote where applicable, drawing out a scientific story and bringing laboratory experiments to life,” Siddhartha Mukherjee writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z All of a sudden there was an anecdote I had forgotten. Modern Love: Healing Sought (Bring Your Own Magic) 2014-05-01T23:12:48Z This fierce indictment of our justice system’s treatment of Black juveniles is stocked with data, legal analyses and anecdotes from Henning’s decades spent defending minors — most of them Black — accused of crimes in Washington, D.C. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z BOCK: How about this anecdote, instead: just before takeoff on an airplane flight, a stewardess reminded Muhammad Ali to fasten his seat belt. “A guy in my MFA program once described my stories as ‘cutesy’”: 5 authors on the worst words critics have used to describe their work 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Ultimately, the tale is just a minor anecdote about resistance; it’s no surprise that the documentary was initially planned as a short film. Review: In ‘The Wanted 18,’ Palestinians Hide Cows From Israeli Forces 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z I shared with them an anecdote about the time I got a flat tire traveling in Maine with my aging parents. Teaching civility: two daring assignments Zimmer is an astute, engaging writer — inserting the atmospheric anecdote where applicable, drawing out a scientific story and bringing laboratory experiments to life. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Often these opinions are backed up by anecdotes that now belong to an increasingly distant past. Critic’s Notebook: Zubin Mehta, of the Israel Philharmonic, on That Nation’s Affairs 2014-03-19T22:01:40Z Below are five notable highlights, with numerous anecdotes from the celebrations surrounding Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ wedding. 5 Surprising Details from Leah Remini's Tell-All Book on Scientology 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z Before I discuss the show, I want to share an anecdote. Renewing your faith in painting 2012-07-12T17:25:00Z Lythcott-Haims offers anecdotes of parents touring graduate schools, serving as mouthpieces for their shy, passive children, and submitting résumés to potential employers, sometimes without their children’s knowledge. ‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In “Improvisation Is the Heart of Music,” a wicked little tale about marriage and monotony, a husband repeats the same elaborate anecdote verbatim, over and over. Mining the Madness of Pure Logic in Stories That Dazzle and Discomfit 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z That anecdote reflects the most fascinating pop aspect of Batman: How does one comic-book character remain so consistently intriguing to so many people over eight decades? Holy longevity, Batman! This crusader has staying power. 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He speaks mostly about himself, digressing from anecdotes about his childhood and professional life into more serious confessional territory, though always with reserve and good humor. | 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Visiting an Ordinarily Unique Artist 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z In any case, McCormick spends most of his time not with Lombardi but with Marie and the three representative Green Bay Packers, who divulge anecdotes in flashback. Larger than life character, small-scale 'Lombardi' 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He lit up the Suicide Squad panel at Comic-Con answering almost every question, beatboxing and sharing anecdotes, including one about Jared Leto’s infamous method acting as The Joker: The Top 10 Coolest Things I Saw at Comic-Con 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “He’ll believe whatever sounds good to him that day,” Ruck said in a recent video call full of vivid anecdotes and laughter. Alan Ruck Is Ready to Leave the Roy Family 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z And she chooses to begin her book with an anecdote about conciliatory flowers that Heller sent to his dying ex-wife. Books of The Times: The Catching of Two Joseph Hellers 2011-07-27T22:06:58Z I used to pepper my conversation with anecdotes about my mum. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Caine himself was a joy, uncorking anecdotes new and old and all of them vintage. A Night Out With ... Sir Michael Caine review – relaxed, charming, and faintly bemused all by the fuss 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Getting juicy stuff out of them — or even hitherto untold anecdotes — is like pulling teeth. Barney Frank, Richard Holbrooke and the pitfalls of making a wonkumentary 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z “Sex and the Single Girl,” her grab-bag book of advice, opinion, and anecdote on why being single shouldn’t mean being sexless, made a celebrity of the 40-year-old advertising copywriter in 1962. Longtime Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies at 90 2012-08-13T19:57:29Z I’d known Quin for maybe five years when he told me this story—really not even a story, more like an anecdote—about a woman he’d met on the street. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z While the filmmaker himself is more interested in telling colorful anecdotes than dredging up the portions of his psyche that inspire him, the anecdotes are colorful indeed. Review: In ‘King Cohen,’ the Joy of a Low-Budget Auteur 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The publishing house added that it will be “full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons.” Parks & Rec Fans, Rejoice: Amy Poehler Is Writing a Book 2013-01-30T14:25:55Z An anecdote in which filmmaker Spike Lee purportedly lambasted Porter for talking “like a white boy” during a “Malcolm X” audition is tough to swallow. Review | Billy Porter bares his soul in ‘Unprotected’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The first thing he does is tell Paul an anecdote about a man in his home town who used to clean doorknobs with a sari smeared with his own feces. "In Treatment" recap: Season 3 begins 2010-10-26T13:01:00Z Editors Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman sew themselves into the fabric of the anthology, with a page or two of introduction to each essay and sometimes personal anecdotes. Review | School shooting survivors speak out in a new book. Their pain is terrible — and vital — to hear. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z Americans are flying to their summer vacation destinations: Click on almost any story about summer travel, and chances are it will lead with an airline anecdote. Perspective | What if all your assumptions about summer travel are wrong? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z There is a chronic shortage of anecdotes – which, in the case of a phenomenon so driven by remarkable individuals, is a real shame. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z The narration is conversational and witty to a fault, teeming with celebrity anecdotes, childhood stories and the overall ridiculousness of being a person. Jonathan Van Ness, Ali Wong and John Hodgman Walk Into a Bar … 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In among all this is a disturbing, but brilliantly weird, anecdote about the death of a fat man. Hawthorn & Child by Keith Ridgway – review 2012-07-11T07:00:03Z My favorite funny anecdote is the one about what happened when he was selling a place in Beverly Hills to Frank Sinatra in the ’80s. Hollywood Powerhouse Sandy Gallin Shifts His Talents to Interior Design 2014-02-20T05:00:00Z But DeVito adored him and just the mention of his name prompts another 10-minute anecdote that sparks belly laughs and what sounds like a lump in the throat. 'No one will forget the 5ft guy' 2013-02-27T18:10:00Z It’s a funny anecdote, but the thread disappears more quickly than the titular treatment would suggest. Review: ‘Hi, Hitler’ and Other Tales From a Lively Household 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Gretton weaves personal anecdotes into a sweeping history of the bureaucrats who have murdered countless people while keeping a safe distance from the carnage. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2020 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Jones relays this anecdote with a laugh, but the situation was perilous — for several reasons. On their third day at work, congressional freshmen went through disorientation 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Others are far more convincing, for example, Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style in which the same anecdote is retold in 99 different ways. Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z This, it turns out, is a characteristic Dinos anecdote: he has a fund of hilarious stories, many revolving around his bemusement at the horror the brothers' art has caused. Dinos Chapman's debut album: here comes the Luftbobler! 2013-02-19T18:24:32Z He was unusually congenial and accessible to interviewers, while cannily embellishing touchstone anecdotes about his underclass youth in a racist America to fit the medium and his mood. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Hrabal’s images and language, his anecdotes and precise observations create an exceptionally sensuous reverie about the passage of time. ‘Harlequin’s Millions,’ by Bohumil Hrabal Her story is quiet and moving; unfortunately, it gets lost in a novel jammed full of zany anecdotes. Flashback to the ’80s 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z But he immediately brought up Lorca, and an anecdote concerning her father. Hallelujah! Rufus Wainwright has baby with Leonard Cohen's daughter 2011-02-21T11:38:53Z The key anecdote concerns a ham-and-egg sandwich tossed off the Empire State Building, transformed by the velocity-equals-weight theory into a lethal weapon. Theater Review: ‘Tiny Dynamite’ by Abi Morgan at 59E59 Theaters 2012-06-14T21:05:36Z And perhaps he enhanced some of the anecdotes with the waitress. A Reality Check for Steinbeck and Charley 2011-04-03T22:00:12Z Despite that disclaimer, the book does contain laugh-out-loud — occasionally graphic — dating anecdotes. Amy Schumer’s new book has hilarious moments, but it’s dark, too 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z The most notable anecdote, however, is nonmusical: Mr. Dixon’s first visit to his friend’s Jane Street apartment, which he shared with several pets, including two mountain lions. Review: George Rose, From His Stage Life to His Unhappy End 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z At the end of a panel that was rich with anecdotes about the tenor as artist, colleague and family man, Barry Tucker called his father’s life a “rags to riches story.” Critic’s Notebook: Singing in the Rain in Tribute to Richard Tucker 2013-08-29T22:07:53Z In “Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore,” fashion journalist Terry Newman assembles 50 iconic authors and their equally iconic outfits, featuring archival photos, anecdotes and depictions of fashion in their work. 'Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore' is a sartorial take on the elements of style 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z But this quirky anecdote then leads to calamity: Ms. Sheldrick had been wrong. Books of The Times: ‘Granddad, There’s a Head on the Beach’ and Other Summer Reads 2012-05-24T22:43:29Z At one point he got so carried away that he shared an anecdote he typically avoids on dates: how he was robbed at gunpoint in his own home. Date Lab: She held up her end of the conversation. And his. 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z It certainly wasn’t when she corrected one of Ms. Rainer’s anecdotes. Review: Three Dance Legends Walk Into a Church … 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z As my classroom anecdote above may indicate, this generation is far less committed to untrammeled expressive liberty than their elders. Will Smith and the function of a slap – what it means for comedy and comedians 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Whatever you think of the celebrity travelogue, this one's got it all; beautifully shot scenery, remarkable locals, historical anecdotes and a droll, magnanimous host. BBC Proms 2010-07-24T05:45:00Z But there are pungent anecdotes throughout the book, even in the parts when Jones becomes, depressingly, a junkie, and then, more depressingly, an L.A. self-help practitioner into transcendental meditation and spinning. ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The rocking chair, for example, is a prop for an anecdote about a seemingly uncharacteristic side of the 16th president: When an unwanted interloper named Col. Lincoln’s Cottage was the summer home of the 16th president 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z You can watch that fantastic panel, full of deliciously fruity anecdotes from Baker, over at the BFI site. The Talons Of Weng Chiang: Doctor Who classic episode #9 2013-06-28T09:00:00Z The best bits were the details and anecdotes, all dripping with insight into how politics operates at this level. Radio review: The Brown Years 2010-09-22T06:59:00Z In a letter of 1948, he explicitly disavowed the narrative element, writing of “Office at Night” that “I hope it will not tell any obvious anecdote, for none is intended.” What can fiction writers bring to Edward Hopper’s paintings? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Throughout, Secretary Clinton will offer vivid personal anecdotes and memories of her collaboration with President Obama and his national security team, as well as her engagement with leaders around the world.” Hillary Clinton Signs Book Deal 2013-04-04T08:33:31Z And there are many anecdotes to illustrate them. Fidel meats Sartre: What happened when the Cuban leader met Jean-Paul Sartre 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z She is an energetic conversationalist who speaks English with a lilting Croatian accent and nimbly moves between personal anecdote and cultural analysis. Dubravka Ugresic Returns to America 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z This famous anecdote actually comes from a documentary made two decades later. Inside the Centre: The Life of J Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk – review 2012-12-16T00:05:05Z It’s just that she’s been working alongside country music legends since she was 15, so most of the characters who populate her anecdotes happen to need no introduction. Amanda Shires Isn’t Letting Nashville, or Her Marriage, Off the Hook 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z This lack of flexibility only gives fuel to conservative attacks on zoning — anecdotes that make land-use ordinances in general seem like draconian government overreach. Fox News and Glenn Beck’s latest misleading cause 2012-08-10T14:40:00Z Ms. Raffin also compiled celebrities’ Christmas anecdotes for a 1990 book, “Sharing Christmas,” which raised money for groups serving the homeless. Deborah Raffin, Actress and Publisher, Is Dead at 59 2012-11-24T03:36:05Z One tantalizing anecdote tells of his disgust at a patron who asked him to color-coordinate a painting to her living room. | 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child': Tamra Davis?s Portrait of Elusive Artist at Film Forum 2010-07-20T22:17:00Z When he talks about his work, he tends to proudly reiterate the same anecdotes about how he assembles his casts via Craigslist ads or how he corresponds directly with the theaters that exhibit his work. What Distinguishes a Neil Breen Film? Neil Breen. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z He also acquired the classic Etonian habit of telling extravagant anecdotes highlighting his mishaps and denigrating his accomplishments. Dominic West in ?Appropriate Adult? on Sundance Channel 2011-12-04T03:49:03Z Winman has perfected a style as comfortable and agile as the greetings and anecdotes these old friends have traded for years. Review | Sarah Winman’s ‘Still Life’ feels like a Saturday night among old friends 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He shared anecdotes and advice with Harris, pledging to join the women for parts of their walk. Why these women just walked Harriet Tubman’s 116-mile journey from the Underground Railroad 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z There are jokes about Irishmen in bars, and anecdotes about Buster Keaton and Harpo Marx, and even some deliberately groan-inducing phrases such as “puns about German sausage are generally considered the worst.” Review | So you think it’s all a big joke? What wit really is — and why we need it. 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Here's a quick anecdote that is important in this context. "Silly is healthy": "Animaniacs" star on laughing through throat cancer & finding a whole new fandom 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z “So where was I? Ah yes …” And he launches back into the anecdote about the time Princess Margaret felt him up. Succession’s Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z The crowd sang along to Merino’s catchy pop songs, which he interspersed with anecdotes, jokes and personal stories. In Barcelona, City of Mega-Festivals, Small Venues Struggle 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z “The Great Oom” includes some wonderful anecdotes about the place in its heyday, as when the great reporter Joseph Mitchell came to size the place up. Books of The Times: ?The Great Oom,? by Robert Love, on Yoga?s Pierre Bernard 2010-04-14T22:33:00Z And the final anecdote, meant to show how important being Palestinian is to her, is a muddle. Theater Review | 'Palestine': So Many Identities, So Little Time 2010-02-19T06:18:00Z If the anecdotes are to be believed, there is substantial avoidance, with student interns accessing information for their employers and people signing up for cheap evening courses solely to get access to a library's journals. David Willetts: We cannot afford to keep research locked in ivory towers 2013-04-09T16:45:00Z Or consider this anecdote from her life: One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. Was Mother Teresa a masochist? 2013-04-30T16:04:00Z There was no banter, though given the extent of their success – their No Need to Argue album alone sold 16m copies – she must surely have an anecdote or two. The Cranberries | Pop review 2010-04-02T21:30:00Z Throughout, Plutarch relies on anecdotes and striking idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate a man or woman’s inner self. ‘The Age of Caesar’: A fresh look at the key players in a time of historic unrest 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z It's early days: these first anecdotes will presumably inspire more people to submit stories, and the posters may proliferate over the summer. Michael Landy's art goes down the tube 2011-07-20T12:20:58Z The problem here is that the anecdotes are ladled out with a heavy hand. Review: Village Theatre adopts 'Anne of Green Gables' 2010-11-19T05:01:00Z “For those questioning this anecdote: check out the yelp for this place. Never seen anything like it, horrifying,” another commented. Bay Area pizza restaurant closes store ‘indefinitely’ after pictures showing employee sleeping in restroom go viral 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z "Charlie Chan" uses old newspaper clippings, anecdotes and interviews to tell about Apana, and it uses his life and career as a sort of mirror to reflect the experiences of many Asian Americans. Book aims to redefine Charlie Chan for Asian-Americans 2010-08-19T20:20:00Z There were many similar anecdotes from people of color on social media, describing countless inquiries into whether they belonged in their educational settings, regardless of their actual backgrounds. Who "belongs" at elite universities? The raging hypocrisy of higher ed gatekeeping 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z If you let go of any expectations of linear progression, it’s pretty easy to lose yourself happily in the eddying rapids of Mr. Daisey’s endless flow of anecdote and reflection. Theater Review: Mike Daisey Vents in ‘All the Faces of the Moon’ at Joe’s Pub 2013-09-12T05:06:25Z “Stories to Tell” comprises anecdotes from Marx’s 40-plus-year career, stories he honed as part of his solo acoustic shows. Richard Marx reflects on fame with a healthy dose of self-deprecation 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Glimpses of the boys they once were emerge in anecdotes of casual deprivation. Margie Orford: 'Working with these men helped me understand why South Africa is so violent' 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z An emblematic moment arrives at the end of Act I, when one character, Maria, crouched around the fire, shares an anecdote about someone she met at Walmart who courageously tried to shut down the plant. Revisiting a Post-Apocalyptic Play in the Pandemic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Over the course of four days, more than 30 dancers, musicians, historians and choreographers share memories, anecdotes and, of course, dance. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z She weaves this together with data, academic research and anecdotes about her friends and acquaintances. So now you're middle-aged? Pamela Druckerman can walk you through it 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z This is how Palmer, now in his 70s, talks: in perfectly paced anecdotes, full of colour, character, drama, insight, action – and of course stars, generally the biggest stars of all. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z And the book offers one of the best collections of copyright anecdotes. A clash of two copyrights 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The books were popular and immensely informative, smoothly blending biography, analysis and anecdote. Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Gabor features in several anecdotes told on the talkshow circuit about nightmare guests, being accused of hard demands and an imperious manner. Zsa Zsa Gabor: oddly modern figure shaped contemporary celebrity 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Jacoby's book, which mixes the intellectual and the emotional, academic studies and personal anecdotes, is intentionally contentious, sometimes to the point of harshness. 'Never Say Die' examines marketing of the myth of a golden old age 2011-02-16T23:37:59Z Those streaming it at home may enjoy it just as much for its meditativeness, or for the promise of a personal tour — complete with historical anecdotes — from Mr. Redford. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Dheepan’ and ‘Deadpool’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z But is it fair to describe the anecdote as a haunting, an experience that lodged deeply in his brain while a thousand others were promptly forgotten? Jasper Johns Still Doesn’t Want to Explain His Art 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z The wispy show, by contrast, follows a strict chronology, but even here Byrne favors association over causality, image over argument — offering a slide show of the mind, with little relation between and among the anecdotes. ‘Walking With Ghosts’ Review: Gabriel Byrne Roams His Past 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Olson buttresses his argument for Hanford’s significance with historic facts such as these, but also with personal anecdotes and present-day insights. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The timing coincides with some of the earliest tuna-and-chip sandwich anecdotes I found in my interviews. An Especially Good Tuna Salad Sandwich Starts With the Crunch 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z It tackled her tumultuous family life and her addiction, and used an anecdote about the director, George Lucas, to dictate what she wanted written in her eventual obituary. Carrie Fisher: A Look at Her Life Beyond ‘Star Wars’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z But less so when you factor in the patients the therapist didn’t dream about – not to mention all the other therapists with no such anecdotes to relate. Spooky! Messages from the beyond or just coincidence? | Oliver Burkeman 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Every few minutes there's a new anecdote, structured by Stevens in a classic setup/details/punchline structure that at times recalls a standup comedy routine. Laurence Fishburne does justice to "Thurgood" 2011-02-24T15:25:00Z It's impossible to tell where autobiography ends and invention begins, but it's safe to say that the more absurd and incredible the anecdote the more likely it is to derive from Story's own life. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z And that's exactly what it is: a tightly produced hour of music and A-list anecdotes. Radio review: The Ronnie Wood Show 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z Under the pseudonym "Yankeediva" she tweets, blogs and regularly uploads YouTube videos to share anecdotes of her experiences travelling the world and pursue a passion for improving arts education. Vocal acrobatics of "La Donna del Lago" an "Olympic" challenge 2013-05-18T15:11:39Z That dark awareness looms over interviews crammed with frisky anecdotes and fond remembrances, helping explain a death that seemed to many inexplicable. ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’ Review: Salt, Sugar and No Fat 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z But “Surviving Twin” is a sentimentality-free zone, and as soon as the song was done, Mr. Wainwright jumped into an anecdote. Review: Loudon Wainwright III’s ‘Surviving Twin’ Is a Father-Son Collaboration 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z He thunders righteously at injustice, and you can trust every anecdote to finish with a life lesson or a fervent moral. Review | How August Wilson learned about life and writing 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z That is one of many revealing anecdotes in “Words Without Music,” Mr. Glass’s warm, low-key and often delightful new memoir. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z I told him that anecdotes were just that, and that studies trumped his singular experience, impressive as it may be. Motherlode Blog: The Redshirting Debate Continues 2011-09-26T17:12:38Z Mikhail reads this into two of the anecdotes he tells about the grim sultan. When the Ottoman Empire Threatened Europe — and the World 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Last week, Arts Admin's Judith Knight gave a moving speech about the history of radical touring theatre that included an anecdote about 7:84. Lyn Gardner's theatre roundup: Three Kingdoms and the fourth estate 2012-05-21T11:23:37Z With his encyclopedic knowledge, talent for vivid anecdotes and tireless gusto, he drives this busload of rowdy clowns into the 21st century. ‘The Comedians’: An antic history of the people who make us laugh 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s election victory was his favorite anecdote — “Nobody has ever had crowds like Trump has had” — and his preferred answer. Donald Trump and the State of Conflict 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s to Biden’s credit that you don’t really question these anecdotes. In Joe Biden’s Memoir, Private Grief and Its Effect on a Public Life 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Hallberg’s impeccably rehearsed remarks seemed geared toward aspiring ballet stars, as he shared anecdotes from his career and lavished praise on his colleagues. Review: ‘David Hallberg Presents: Legacy’ at the Koch Theater 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z But among its charms, "This Land" contains an anecdote about a journey he made up to Seattle with fellow troubadour Pete Seeger. Seattle troupe brings back Woody Guthrie tribute, with marionettes and song 2012-09-19T17:56:03Z The album’s snappiest song, “Wristband,” starts as a fictional anecdote and turns into a larger metaphor for privilege. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Then, earlier this year, he stunned the world – and Rachel Riley, who never quite knows how to react to his endless tractor anecdotes – by becoming the new host of Countdown. Nick Hewer: the real star of the Apprentice is unstoppable 2012-07-09T11:52:00Z The bulk of what’s here is a strangely culled, often repetitive set of anecdotes from only a few easily obtainable books that most Marilyn fans probably know about. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z And the result is a fat, showbiz-nerd-satisfying tome with something for every showbiz-nerd taste: on-set stories, technical details, funny anecdotes about actors, the echoes of studio executives kvetching and various people complaining about critics. That’s Entertainment! Here’s a Dishy History of Hollywood. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z But while a dire clip of Max Miller may make you wonder quite how golden this era actually was, this is largely wonderful stuff, rich with anecdotes told by veteran showbiz raconteurs. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-28T08:00:02Z Like the accompanying images provided by Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo, McClanahan’s prose is intoxicating, taking care to detail magnificent anecdotes from Johnston’s life while simultaneously shedding light on ineffable notions like culture, psychology and fame. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z It's not unusual for fetish clubs to crop up in comic anecdotes. Stuart Goldsmith 2010-08-22T15:49:00Z Listen up, Hulkamaniacs: Are you an aspiring young actor or journeyman performer looking for advice, inspiration and insider anecdotes from a seasoned show-business veteran? ArtsBeat: Hulkamania Really Is Coming For You: Hulk Hogan Plans Live Tour 2011-06-08T14:28:34Z An easy, elegant writer, he studs his narrative with affectionate family anecdotes and thumbnail sketches of world leaders and colleagues. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Her character is lucid in her awfulness, and she almost never shuts up, relating endless anecdotes that don’t just force her family to face awful truths, but rub their noses in them. ‘The Last’ Review: A Revelation Leaves a Family Shattered 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Whether these vague anecdotes are purposefully evasive or the inevitable product of a mind peering into the past, it’s clear that this is no all-encompassing account. Review | In ‘Brat,’ Andrew McCarthy looks back at his younger self — a sheepish outsider, torn between ambition and art 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Juan Thompson is an above-average writer, with a way with an anecdote, but his account lacks the mystic spark that animates truly great writing. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Here he shares anecdotes of working with some of his favorite artists: Robert Rauschenberg loved soaps, Gregory Peck loved Rauschenberg: Sidney Felsen recalls 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z He has a sure ear for the telling anecdote, and a good eye for detail. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z From that platform, each Sunday past and present, personal anecdotes and musings mix with an in-depth examination of Scripture, forming a sermon that echoes long after congregants have gone home. How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z That’s the highest form of this work, when you’re connecting in a way that is truly beyond words, beyond anecdotes, beyond “this song makes me think of this summer with this person.” Jack Antonoff Doesn’t Want to Just Take Up Space 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z For his first trick as an Internet essayist, Ryan inflates an anecdote about a very minor injury in a car accident into a tale of trauma. The Twentysomething Body-and-Soul-Searching of “Special” and “Shrill” 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Peep Show's not the sort of show that involves a huge amount of research, other than listening to your own insane thoughts more attentively and asking your friends for humiliating anecdotes. Peep Show's funniest moments - by the man who wrote them 2012-11-23T13:00:00Z The tweet went viral, with thousands of corroborating replies and anecdotes. The white, conservative Southern women who asked me to keep their abortions secret 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Or, it would seem, from anecdotes in the book, nice guys. What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner – review 2013-07-11T09:00:00Z Those on the Audubon tour saw sunbathing sparrows, robins and starlings, as the guides told anecdotes about the importance of various birds to artists over the centuries. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z Cross picked anecdotes from the book to illustrate the sisters’ experiences in the male-dominated world of rock ‘n’ roll. Heart plays an acoustic evening at Benaroya Hall | Concert review 2013-04-10T18:29:17Z In another, she recalls an anecdote through the lens of contrasted emotion, moving from tears to fits of giggles. In Pieces 2010-06-28T21:01:00Z Yet Material World provides almost no anecdotes about George's pre-Beatle life, other than that he went to the same Dickensian boys' school as Paul McCartney. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z She then relays an extended anecdote about the genius physicist Richard Feynman and the death of his young wife in 1945. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Did Neeson assume that a certain audience for this interview would be sympathetic, or even find his anecdote relatable? Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Gaming forums are rife with anecdotes from players who are dating and marrying. It?s Love at First Kill 2011-04-22T18:21:33Z The comedian Iliza Shlesinger is known for mining the messy world of modern dating by sharing anecdotes that appear to reveal the unspeakable truths women keep from men. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Rock Rubber 45s’ and ‘Drunk History’ 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z A charming “How we met” story, or at least a mildly amusing anecdote. Blind date: 'Things got a bit spicy around the main course' 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z In 2010, she published "Getting the Pretty Back," which offered personal anecdotes and advice, and her first novel "When It Happens To You" came out last year. Molly Ringwald rediscovers her jazz roots 2013-04-18T16:01:04Z The encounter’s unsettling effect on them is what turns the story into something more than an anecdote, and it lodges in the reader’s memory because so much is left out. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z She will also pepper the set with funny and revealing anecdotes from her remarkable career. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The late, great Bill Hicks had a fabulous anecdote that rather sums up the death of Apollo-era optimism. Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z In its most simplified form, Glass says the typical "This American Life" story follows a tried-and-true, even ancient formula: anecdote followed by reflection. Jessica Abel's Graphic novel 'Out on the Wire' draws out the secrets of radio storytelling 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Ranganathan’s enthusiasm for talking about music and life is infectious; even when some guests claim not to like hip-hop, he gently squeezes them until they spill anecdotes. Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan: a rapper’s delight 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Thankfully, he leavens his magisterial tour of fearsome science and vast brewery history with cheery anecdotes, humor, vivid you-are-there prose and a clever eye for personality — or its absence — among the many experts he meets. If Tea Isn’t Your Cuppa, How About Beer, Wine or Coffee? 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Birbiglia, whose comedy leans on storytelling, has a showman’s gift for making precisely told anecdotes seem like rambling tales just being thought up. ‘Trainwreck Comedy Tour’ Is Amy Schumer’s Thing 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z It's all good reason enough for Saltzman to turn the camera on himself and a few choice expert witnesses here, even if none of the anecdotes or insights are especially profound. "Meeting the Beatles in India" review: Documentary blends Fab Four lore and gentle TM proselytism 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z In Mitnick’s, women appear primarily in anecdotes and always as unwitting, jealous or angry. Opposing Views on What to Do About the Data We Create 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Less like a movie and more like a series of anecdotes, "Jack Goes Boating" marks Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie-directing debut. 'Jack Goes Boating': Philip Seymour Hoffman steers sentimental relationship flick 2010-09-23T20:20:00Z This is just a couple anecdotes and stray observations. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z If you want to see Stiller himself tell anecdotes from his childhood, consider watching this documentary, which looks at creativity during the Great Depression. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ and ‘The Lodge’ 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z And as a sample, she said she had “thousands” of anecdotes. Salma Hayek felt like the mom on the set of ‘Eternals’ 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z And it's odd how similar her approach to storytelling is to that of some stand-up comedians who string jokes and anecdotes together without any special regard for structure. Laurie Anderson's 'Dirtday!' digressed, but the audience dug it 2012-10-21T20:12:04Z “He knew exactly what was missing in the anecdotes,” Bird said. Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z “The Mother of All Questions” is filled with this sort of storytelling, with Solnit drawing anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news. Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “I would never knock someone on their parenting,” a neighbor on the Marine base says, as she begins an anecdote about the Lees being inattentive parents. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z A news release describes the memoir as "his story, written himself, rich with anecdotes about family and fellow musicians, introspective about the creation of his famous songs." Every day he writes the book: Elvis Costello to publish memoir 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Browning is adept at intellectual seduction: she prolongs largely irrelevant anecdotes, pauses just before imparting crucial exposition, teasingly asks your permission to reveal information she knows you desperately desire. The Inappropriately Intimate Exchanges of Barbara Browning 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Oshinsky’s notes give no hint of where he got this anecdote. Review: ‘Bellevue’ Celebrates a Hospital Not Crazy, but Compassionate 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z That line interestingly doesn't appear in Taylor's play, which the script tells us is based on "writings of Ann Richards, interviews with her staff, friends and family, film records, news publications, anecdote and imagination." Review: Holland Taylor's 'Ann' a sweet valentine 2013-03-08T01:09:08Z In the book, Mary L. Trump, daughter of the president's older brother, Fred Jr., blends her clinical training with personal observations and anecdotes, all toward the goal of revealing unparalleled familial dysfunction. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s a lengthy anecdote that includes an ever so slightly bitter reference to the Emmy nominations Leonard Nimoy received for the original “Star Trek.” | 'The Captains': To Boldly Go: A Starfleet Six-Pack 2011-07-21T22:07:45Z On that same subject, there is an interesting anecdote in the book about your being tagged by an activist in a Facebook post about the series “Transparent.” “Being black and gay in America both come with heavy doses of self-loathing”: Actor Darryl Stephens opens up about typecasting, visibility and telling his own story 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The singer clopping around the stage in her heels would have spotted Alba, schmoozed her, and dined out on the anecdote for weeks afterwards. 'Forces take you over' 2011-02-12T00:03:28Z As well as waspish observations about personalities – Charles Clarke is "a quixotic contrarian" – there are revealing anecdotes. Last Man Standing by Jack Straw - review 2012-10-02T11:29:00Z One of the book’s most telling anecdotes involves the late congressman Jack Murtha, a grizzled, conservative Democrat from Pennsylvania. Nancy Pelosi’s Brilliant Career 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z So enjoy this glorious mix of history, anecdote, music and Pushkin while it lasts. Audiobook roundup - reviews 2012-02-10T22:55:03Z Desus has an easy elegance to the architecture of his anecdotes and synopses; Mero combines a gift for exact diction with a delightful range of reference. The Verbal Wit and Bronx-Born Street Wisdom of “Desus & Mero” 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Here's anecdote: I watched an episode with a white male friend of mine, and I thought it was hilarious. When "Atlanta" Met the Northman: Executive producer Stefani Robinson breaks down the season finale 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z But if you want to go on, I'll give you some science, a few anecdotes, starting with the conversation I overheard that Saturday morning after the family rose. For the healthy, safe and secure, the coronavirus shutdown is also an opportunity to let go 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z But neighboring towns were left devastated; anecdotes started streaming in long before the news reports. Months after Hurricane Florence, undocumented farmworkers still struggle to recover 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Perhaps her unusual position as both a political insider and outsider is best captured in an anecdote shared early in “Our Time Is Now.” Stacey Abrams Has a Message for You: Get Involved 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z “Messy” masterfully weaves together anecdote and academic work. Autopilot is the enemy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “We’re not doing a very good job,” he concludes, after an anecdote about the plunder of Canadian forests by a logging company. Ball pits, buskers and ‘ninja gardeners’: This business conference is a circus. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Aside from a few bravura scenes here and there, this self-conscious, tricked-up volume consists largely of gruesome anecdotes — which feel contrived for maximum gross-out value — desultorily strung together like ugly beads on a filthy string. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z Each recipe is accompanied by anecdotes about where it was sourced or when and to whom the dish was served, giving a rich history of the couple’s life and relationships. A New Cookbook Showcases Jackson Pollock’s Artful Recipes 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Laird is as unafraid of the "big" subjects – religion, astronomy, war – as he is of the "little" ones – personal anecdotes, the minutiae of day-to-day life. Go Giants by Nick Laird - review 2013-01-25T09:00:01Z The result is “We Heart Cooking,” a book full of simple recipes and funny anecdotes about their experiences in the kitchen. With a new cookbook, 12-year-old ‘twin chefs’ aim to encourage kids in the kitchen 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z There are any number of places where the reader yearns for more anecdotes, more description and, most of all, more of the mothers’ own voices. Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z According to an anecdote in WWD, she was known to address them as “my little kittens.” At Chloé, Clare Waight Keller Pushes Femininity Forward, but It’s More Modern 2012-10-17T23:23:02Z Obama acolytes, and there are still plenty of those, will enjoy the book’s anecdotes from inside the White House, like the time Pfeiffer’s pants split during a meeting in the Oval Office. Remembering Obama and Hoping to Win Again 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Rylance did most of the speaking, including some anecdotes lasting several pages of script, while also required to create a convincing limp, a West Country accent and suffer episodes of physical assault. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z When she considers the computer algorithms that increasingly mimic human speech and thought, for example, she rakes up melancholy anecdotes from others that thicken her own intellection. Review: Rachel Cusk’s ‘Transit’ Offers Transcendent Reflections 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He also enjoys citing a famous anecdote in which Count Basie drummer Jo Jones, in a 1930s gig with the raw teenager Charlie Parker, threw a cymbal at Parker when he went off-tempo. Review: Whiplash Moves to the Beat of a Driven Drummer 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Formerly part of a rage-fuelled double act with rationalist crusader Robin Ince, he's just as great when flying solo and regaling audiences with bitter anecdotes rooted in the myriad frustrations of everyday existence. This week's new live comedy 2013-04-06T05:00:17Z Bernstein, who died 20 years ago this October, returned every summer for decades to teach, hold court and provide material for numerous anecdotes. Michael Tilson Thomas Looks Back on Bernstein and Mahler 2010-07-09T20:29:00Z I start a newsletter, sending out emails from Bob to a couple of hundred devotees, in which he details his shopping trips and any particularly successful anecdotes he's told in the pub. Bob Servant Independent: the don of Dundee 2013-01-15T06:30:01Z The result is occasionally confusing, not least because neither the history nor anecdotes are in chronological or any other discernible order. Design: The Look of Letters 2010-12-05T15:00:00Z The celebration explored his personal passions like tango, literature and music, and highlighted anecdotes from those who knew him well. Chanel, Fendi host tribute to grand couturier Karl Lagerfeld 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z He was happy to share anecdotes about the old days. SNL Alum Rachel Dratch Remembers Don Pardo 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z There are many, many interesting anecdotes circulating about Puccini’s “Tosca” — which figures since “Tosca” is among the most performed operas in the business. L.A. Opera's 'Tosca': No gimmicks, just some powerhouse singing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Jost, 38, approaches “A Very Punchable Face” with his characteristically matter-of-fact tone and self-effacing persona, rattling off amusing anecdotes from an uncannily eventful existence. Colin Jost has a new memoir — and some thoughts on the end of his SNL run 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Edward King in the Sunday Times was equally positive: "Passionately written and full to bursting with digressions and anecdotes, Frampton's book does an excellent job of bringing Montaigne and his historical context to life." Critical eye: book reviews roundup 2011-02-19T00:05:27Z The movie’s idiosyncratic composition, comprising many static takes that deliver the action with a plain reserve, doesn’t so much fragment the action enigmatically as reduce it to anecdotes and information. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It means the audience can’t connect the anecdotes with what they may know of the region or the conflict; instead, we are invited to consider how violence, inhumanity — and dignity, too — manifest regardless of culture. Tiago Rodrigues’s Theater of Compassion 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z They exist as an anecdote in our minds. Dave Eggers on working for justice through oral history: “There wasn’t much that allowed those people to seem fully human” 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Brugman has, over the years, heard hundreds of O'Hanlon's hair-raising anecdotes, but began to despair that he would ever read the autobiography for which he had long hoped. Redmond O'Hanlon: A life in books 2011-03-28T06:59:01Z Brown’s bar tales and whiz-bang anecdotes are models of how to tell a story without using a word too many. A summer book list like no other 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z But another part hopes we would bond over it and he would tell me anecdotes in front of a roaring fire. Andrew Weatherall: 'Never take the Guardian on to a building site' 2013-02-06T16:50:00Z But at its worst, it drives an anecdote to an unreasonable conclusion. You Know Your History? These Podcasts Aren’t So Sure 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Which needn’t be a problem: “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” is little more than a string of anecdotes about another group of artists in another era. Great Art, Repugnant Politics 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Quin would say that he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, and, in reality, although the woman in the anecdote may be disappointed, she hasn’t really been hurt; Quin’s cruel impulse is very sublimated and civilized. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z It’s a rambling anecdote and at the same time sketchy and incomplete, which is consistent with Florence’s scattered, jumpy self-presentation. Film: Greta Gerwig?s Breakthrough Performance in ?Greenberg? 2010-03-26T19:34:00Z Roderick described the anecdote as a “teachable moment” that led to a six-hour struggle driving his daughter to tears and, eventually, a bland yet prideful victory snack. Seattle’s John Roderick, aka ‘Bean Dad,’ apologizes after social media backlash 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z He remains the inveterate music nerd, always quick to name-drop, share anecdotes and demonstrate the breadth of his incomparable knowledge. Review | Questlove puts his obsessive music expertise on full display 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z But between the hearing testimony and anecdotes from members of the religious community, the amount of money lost in Trickling Springs' closure appears to be in the tens of millions of dollars. A Pennsylvania dairy was built on Mennonites’ trust and money. Now they’re left holding the bag. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z I was anxious because what I'd been given with these netsuke was far, far more interesting than a generic set of anecdotes. Small things 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z Many of the same anecdotes used by Kaplan can be found here, too, but Lehman, an established poet, widens the frame of reference, thereby expanding the emotional resonance of the songs. Frank Sinatra: Ol’ Blue Eyes is back in two new biographies 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z A clock on the wall spun forward as he shared an anecdote, which he concluded by saying, “Anyway, she didn’t want to keep it, so I drove her down to the Planned Parent Trap.” ‘S.N.L.’ Mocks Herschel Walker Ahead of Georgia’s Senate Vote 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Nunez’s narrator folds incident, anecdote, history, rumor — even fairy tales — into a plaintive litany. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z In “No Dream Is Too High,” the celebrated astronaut does talk about his favorite subject, but the book — a collection of anecdotes and inspirational messages — is no space manifesto. In a new book, Buzz Aldrin talks about living in Neil Armstrong’s shadow 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z The FX series, which begins its second season Thursday night at 10:30, is less an ongoing story than a collection of vignettes from one man's life, shaped like short stories or anecdotes. "Louie's" hilarious, poignant return 2011-06-23T11:24:00Z One anecdote brought back for me that strange, sad, rapturous quality in Page's acting that lured me to pursue a life in the theater. Angelica Page's 'Turning Page' a beguiling, uncanny tribute 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Levine's autobiographical set largely comprises outrageous tales from "adult" retail, plus a few anecdotes about her relaxed attitude to parenting. Fat Whore: Kristine Levine – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-06T09:29:00Z He said that there was “truth to the Tesla” anecdote and that he appreciated the help of all the chain’s brands at the annual event. American Teenagers Are Declaring ‘Virginity Rocks’ 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Descendants of Ida O’Keeffe’s neighbors in Whittier, perhaps, remember anecdotes about a famous artist’s forgotten and neglected sister. A Sister in the Shadow of Georgia O’Keeffe 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The result is an entertaining read that avoids the trap of forced anecdotes and excessive contrarianism that plague lesser titles in the genre. The Joys of Approaching Life as an Amateur 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z In an especially funny anecdote, Hijuelos cool-headedly averts a mugging as he is walking to the subway from a night class at City College. 'Thoughts Without Cigarettes': Oscar Hijuelos' search for self 2011-05-25T22:54:04Z That's not to say that the attendant anecdotes and off-the-cuff musings are not powerful and affecting. Paul McCartney’s “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present”: A visual feast, if flawed, for Beatles fans 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The article, which opens with an anecdote about female writers feeling silenced by over-talking male colleagues in the writers’ room of “The Shield,” explores gendered communication dynamics in the workplace. In praise of interrupting: Why telling co-workers to monologue at each other isn’t a solution to the “speaking while female” problem 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z It’s the kind of connection that probably made Stewart comfortable sharing an anecdote like this — a night he bombed badly, in front of the biggest room, and some of the biggest stars. Jon Stewart’s worst night ever: “It was total silence. Impressive in its discipline” 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Previous scholars “tended to cherry-pick anecdotes without having a sense that it was possible to measure all of that text and treat the whole archive as a single unit,” he said. As the Gavels Fell: 240 Years at Old Bailey 2011-08-17T22:30:15Z These anecdotes invariably end with the same question: “Is it still any good?” How to tell if that dusty bottle of wine in your basement is still any good 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z She knits rendingly painful personal anecdotes into the essays in "Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution," including her struggles with anorexia and online harassment. Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Then, as now, the anecdotes shared among women cut through the recondite rhetoric of social theory. Rebecca Solnit’s Faith in Feminist Storytelling 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z In this book you'll also find exotic fables, humorous sketches, pastiche, political diatribes, anecdotes, doodles, scraps of conversation. Every Short Story 1951-2012 by Alasdair Gray - review 2012-11-14T08:00:03Z The book, he adds, is “written with verve, painted with broad strokes and dotted with memorable anecdotes and vivid quotations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z It was only a frozen moment, an anecdote that came to represent the whole. Polar bears just might outlive us all 2012-12-30T16:00:00Z He also told a series of anecdotes detailing his rise to stardom, including a rendition of his famous comic song "Jake the Peg". Entertainer Rolf Harris groomed 13-year-old girl for sex, court told 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z For most of the evening she was supremely relaxed, and amusing anecdotes poured out of her. Music Review: Barbara Cook’s 85th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-20T02:20:08Z And yet, as they shared colorful anecdotes, one could draw parallels between their own professional and personal evolutions, and the changes they’ve made to their source material for “Mrs. Doubtfire.” They Adapted ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ and Their Personal Beliefs 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z This commentary retains considerable value whether you’re a film studies or film production maven, and offers some diverting anecdotes as well. A Robot Romance on Amazon, American Indies and a ‘Taxi Driver’ Commentary 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z There’s some actual evidence, and anecdotes galore, indicating that getting kids involved in cooking and gardening opens them up, at least a little, to new foods. Perspective | Being stuck at home may have an upside when it comes to eating: You can take control 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z While many of the anecdotes here are not new, it is a kick to see Caro poring over holdings at the L.B.J. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Finally, he goes one anecdote too far, and the next audience question elicits audible groans from those hungry to see Scorpio. Michael Winner: statesman of film 2011-03-17T22:15:02Z Coté’s book is full of facts like this, interwoven with anecdotes from his life as an urban beekeeper. Dripping Slow and Sweet, Four New Books About Honey and Bees 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The lunch location summons forth some anecdotes from the tapes. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes. In December, GQ published a cluster of testimonies about Anthony Bourdain, collected after his suicide, in 2018, which includes a poignant anecdote about his popular “Parts Unknown” episode with Barack Obama. The Two Faces of Suicide 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The novel takes the form of four long letters that he writes to a former teacher, recording anecdotes about Gugu in a rambling, episodic style. Book World: ‘Frog’ by Mo Yan 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z It will be accompanied by a 174-page manuscript containing lyrics, credits and anecdotes on the production of each song, printed on gilded Fedrigoni Marina parchment and encased in leather by a master bookbinder. Wu-Tang Clan placed an 88-year copyright on secret album 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z I relayed these thoughts to Brodsky, along with the anecdote about my professor and “Lolita.” Trigger Warnings and the Novelist's Mind 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Painful stories and funny anecdotes, rites of passage and private revelations. The best visual art event of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:03Z “I have hundreds of anecdotes that I’ve kept in a journal throughout my time at Hearst and Cosmo,” Ms. Coles told The Times, adding that many of those anecdotes have made it into the series. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘American Horror Story’ and ‘Like Crazy’ 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z “The Alley of Fireflies,” in Rousselian fashion, is a series of nested anecdotes. How Raymond Roussel Put the Impossible on the Page 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Their combined audio experience is evident in their effortless back-and-forth, which blends behind-the-scenes anecdotes with fascinating historical insights into the 1986 nuclear disaster and its fallout. 6 TV Tie-In Podcasts to Enhance Your Next Binge 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Early on, he describes how as a boy he botched a negotiation for a horse — a telling anecdote, as financial failures agonized him — and the ensuing ridicule. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z This is considered the weakest form of medical evidence, and is no more meaningful than a good patient anecdote in a magazine story. Medical Terms You Need To Know 2010-08-23T10:00:00Z One running theme of the series is the guests’ vocal eagerness to humble themselves before Beyoncé and her empire; DJ Khaled tells an anecdote that doubles as an ace performance of cozy obeisance. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z There's an everyday quality to the anecdotes that shows how those resisting the checkpoints, beatings and censorship are not dangerous subversives but people like us – though operating in a different world. One Day in Spring: 24 Hours in the Middle East – review 2012-05-23T16:17:57Z And generally it will be slightly autobiographical, with personal anecdotes about style. On the Runway Blog: Susie Bubble Thinks Pink 2012-10-15T21:58:21Z De Ridder enthusiastically relates this anecdote while sitting in the conductor's room of the Barbican in London. These New Puritans: a band like no other 2010-10-07T21:59:00Z Morley used the term in a conversation with singer and fellow contestant Alexander O'Neal and later in an anecdote about former boxer Frank Bruno. Morley sorry for Big Brother remarks 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The story is structured as a random collection of statistics about Spokane, interspersed with funny and heartbreaking anecdotes about bike theft, domestic abuse and poverty culled from Walter’s life. Spokane native Jess Walter releases short-story collection 2013-02-12T18:06:23Z Both anecdotes, which Morrison weaves into a sort of narrative throughline, connect him to Jonathan in ways he’s found useful in trying to move forward. ‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z I needed desperately to memorize every detail from every family anecdote I’d ignored growing up. Past Into Present: 4 Journeys That Changed Us 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Zimny films these highly personal anecdotes, and their accompanying songs, in close-ups and medium shots that don’t stray beyond the stage. Springsteen on Netflix, Where Everyone Can Get a Ticket 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Sarah M. Broom fits this anecdote into her forceful, rolling and many-chambered new memoir, “The Yellow House.” ‘The Yellow House’ Is a Major Memoir About a Large Family and Its Beloved Home 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z There are many similar anecdotes here, most of them mild. Review: In ‘The Accidental Life,’ Golfing on LSD Is Just Part of an Editor’s Job 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z Along the way, I wrote about data and anecdotes hinting that perhaps the ratios were changing. Motherlode: Equal Workloads for Husbands and Wives 2011-07-25T16:00:53Z They seem to be waging a war of rhetoric, using anecdotes as ammunition. When should you have reservations about your hotel reservations? 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z His obligatory anecdote complete, we sit in silence for a bit until I venture to ask him how his night is going so far. 13 Hours: Michael Bay's Benghazi movie and 'the American Way' 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z For decades he has leaned on familiar Beatles anecdotes, presuming that decades-old chestnuts may still pass for warm. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z If anyone is ever foolish enough to ask you, “Why are there so few great women artists?” have that anecdote ready. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z On Inside the Actors Studio, he gave a great anecdote about how he felt he bungled his first audition for The Sopranos. James Gandolfini remembered by The Sopranos creator David Chase 2013-06-26T17:47:50Z Everyone has a handful of anecdotes they know people will like when they tell them. James Patterson: a life in writing 2013-05-11T08:02:02Z Robert Kimball, the show’s artistic director, who substituted at the last minute for Charles Osgood as host, told pithy backstage anecdotes about the songwriters and their occasionally fraught relationship with Ziegfeld. Music Review: ?Makin? Whoopee,? at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2012-01-11T00:01:05Z This sad litany comes from an idiosyncratic novel by David Markson called The Last Novel, in which he tells the story, in fragmentary anecdotes, of an aging author writing his final book. Art doesn’t pay 2012-09-30T14:00:00Z At first sight, the piece seems little more than an anecdote. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z But I’m not sure we needed to circle back to this anecdote repeatedly. | 'Interviewing the Audience': If You Go to the Show, You May Just Land a Role 2011-02-11T03:30:22Z To match their silliness, Jarmusch illustrates some wilder Stooges anecdotes with playful animation and campy stock footage from old TV shows — including, naturally, the Three Stooges. The brief and wild ride of the Stooges gets ‘fan film’ treatment in ‘Gimme Danger’ 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z No talk-show anecdote has had such a barnacle hold on the American consciousness. “The Wizard of Oz,” the Last Munchkin, and the Little People Left Behind 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z He spent hours in Prague pubs collecting anecdotes, inhaling the turns of phrase that he would later exhale on the page. The Violent Insights of Bohumil Hrabal 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Both the railworkers and the landowners thrive on anecdote, on tales that reveal the teller. The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner – review 2012-06-01T07:00:03Z Then Mr. Cannavale recalled being boxed in by a fact-checker who was calling to confirm an anecdote he had relayed to a reporter from when he was 6 years old. What if the Guy With the Red Pencil Is Nuts? 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z The criticism brought to mind a lengthy discussion on Reddit last year, inspired by an anecdote from a bookstore clerk who sold copies of all four “Twilight” novels to a sheepish professor. Majoring in Potterology 2012-05-25T19:20:00Z Miroslaw Budzynski, the curator, plied me with anecdotes about presidents, portraits and pianos, his words echoing through large rooms decorated with Baroque furniture and elaborate frescoes. Journeys: Palace-Hopping in Poland 2012-06-15T18:41:28Z Their anecdotes about how they came to be in the movie and their experiences during filming are delightful, but Mr. Spira also finds a certain melancholy in their tales. Review: ‘Elstree 1976,’ in a Galaxy Not Far, Far Away 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “All About Me!,” which landed on bookshelves Tuesday, is indeed chock full of stories, anecdotes and memories from a comedy master of biblical proportions. Q&A: Mel Brooks, 95, is still riffing 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z So apart from what I gleaned from public gossip or the personal anecdotes of mutual friends, some of whom he dated, I never knew much about his real life. Review | Robin Williams: The hilarious, tortured life of a comic genius 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z With shrewd observations and snappy anecdotes, Goldstein, a host of NPR’s “Planet Money,” shows how currency may be humanity’s most successful fiction: an i.o.u. that promises the holder nothing but more paper money. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Kushner can take credit for burnishing a long Lincolnian anecdote with a punch line involving an outhouse. The Carpetbagger: Writers Rethink Words for the Big Screen 2013-01-02T23:34:49Z Warner jokes before explaining the festival is doing a survey of 100 production companies, with the resulting anecdotes aired live on stage – voiced Creature Comforts-style by animated characters. GEITF chair Karl Warner: 'The BBC must be bold and take risks' 2013-07-07T17:29:01Z But it behooves one to "yes, and" this topic a little further by circling back to my anecdote about assessing a movie's worthiness by its trailers. The promotion for "Bros" was botched. But its ordinary rom-com trappings may also be to blame 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In practice, Parsons simply recited extracts from his memoirs and wheeled out convoluted showbiz anecdotes, while the actors and director, too polite to interrupt, stood around. To see Edinburgh's best musicals you must look beyond the stars 2010-08-26T11:59:00Z When one of McDonell’s titans dies, he ends the chapter with an anecdote or detail that shows that writer’s lasting vitality. Legends Live on In an Editor's Book 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Bavouzet offered anecdotes and demonstrations, illuminating Debussy’s “gray harmonies” — created when one hand plays black keys, and the other white keys — and discussing the influence of Wagner on Debussy. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z But civil partnership anecdotes are a new addition to 's arsenal – and should prove a potent one, if Calman is any guide. Susan Calman – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-17T17:16:00Z Salamon, who wrote critically of the Xerox scene in her book, said revisiting it with Morris made her frame the anecdote more pointedly this time around. A New Podcast Rekindles a Box-Office Bomb 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z If he tends to boil everything and everyone down to an anecdote, as if he were preparing to be the keynote speaker at the Great Sports Banquet in the Sky, well, at 84, he’s allowed. Books of The Times: ‘His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir,’ by Dan Jenkins 2014-03-04T20:04:03Z The show – a mixture of biography, anecdote and Pinter's poetry – almost certainly belongs in the lecture theatre rather than the dramatic theatre, or perhaps in a literary tent or on Radio 4. A Celebration of Harold Pinter ? review 2011-08-10T17:45:01Z Live, he's a surprisingly brassy and in-your-face performer, delivering a rich mix of anecdotes with a punchy, dramatic style. This week's new comedy 2011-02-26T00:07:58Z Paul Elie begins his intriguingly titled “Reinventing Bach” with a charming anecdote that seems, at first, a neat frame for his argument. Books of The Times: ‘Reinventing Bach,’ by Paul Elie 2012-10-07T20:25:38Z Overall, however, the documentary doesn’t try to cram in nuggets of band history, save for several amusing anecdotes about Rush’s early tours with KISS. Rush’s final goodbye: “Time Stand Still” documentary is a loving lesson in navigating loss 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z "Things which are amazing at the time. And things which are awful at the time, which then turn into amazing anecdotes." Caitlin Moran: Making feminism fun 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z They say it’s the result that counts: a song that, to them, turns some of the most stinging flashpoints of U.S. racial history into aw-shucks anecdotes. A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry 2013-04-12T04:28:55Z His loss is both the film’s emotional anchor and the thread that connects its anecdotes and digressions. ‘Beastie Boys Story’ Review: Pass the Mic, and the Memories 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z These anecdotes will feel stale soon because there will be new ones and new men. The sexual-harassment epidemic has been diagnosed. What’s the cure? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Marsh states there are only two good reasons to do medicine: for interesting anecdotes and to know the best medical care for yourself and your family. The Jane Goodall of neurosurgery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Kinstler, whose work has also appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has many anecdotes about his subjects. Art by renowned portraitist selling on Amazon 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In both cases, his recollection involved the same anecdote: Leee Black Childers, Photographer of Counterculture, Dies at 68 2014-04-11T04:47:07Z The images and anecdotes captured by filmmaker Aaron Schock's unobtrusive camera are alternately sad and lovely. 'Circo': one of the greatest shows on a real bare-bones circus family 2011-04-21T21:49:04Z The 72-year-old musician, as usual, took no intermission break and rarely paused, except to share a few anecdotes between songs. Paul McCartney returns to Dodger Stadium 48 years later 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z He illustrated his findings with brightly colored graphs and funny anecdotes. The Science Behind the Perfect Dating Profile 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Rather, she is the incredulous witness, the wise narrator and the resilient hero of what might otherwise have been a sad little anecdote. ‘Zola’ Review: Twitter? I Hardly Know Her! 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Bell liked to tell of his political beginnings with an anecdote about his bar mitzvah, in 1932. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z Passers-by might remember that they have skating artifacts stashed away or just anecdotes for her oral history collection. Antiques: Horace Walpole?s London Home Is Restored 2010-04-15T21:29:00Z As well as makeup and fashion tips, Ball shares his favourite music, DIY projects and even anecdotes, in between revising for his A-levels. ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Patricia Wright of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund tells a lovely anecdote about sitting next to Senator Edward M. Kennedy while President George H. W. Bush was signing the act in July 1990. Television Review: ?Lives Worth Living? on ?Independent Lens? - Review 2011-10-26T23:46:17Z At this point it's traditional to quote the brilliant HL Mencken, who said: "The Great Gatsby is in form no more than a glorified anecdote, and not too probable at that." The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald is right on time 2013-05-07T13:41:06Z Surveys, research and anecdotes all show that running and music rock. Running with music: the case for and against 2013-03-13T16:54:00Z It’s a fascinating mix of autobiographical anecdotes, an account of Keats’s life, and an analysis of some of his most famous poems. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z That anecdote demonstrates one reason Mr. Agee was among the most respected curators, scholars and teachers in the art world, especially with regard to American Modernism. William Agee, Leading Art Curator and Teacher, Dies at 86 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z When she begins writing her son, Jordan, her anecdotes can be frank, or frisky. ‘A Journal for Jordan’ Review: Reflections on Love Built and Lost 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z There is no hint of regimented structure and the book veers anarchically from short story to anecdote to memoir. Vanished Years by Rupert Everett – review 2013-06-09T10:00:03Z Q: Care to share any funny or illuminating anecdotes from your Galapagos video shoot? A behind-the-scenes look at 360-degree video 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z "It seems people remember vivid anecdotes about things, regardless of whether they are describing something very rare." Get your facts right: Italy, U.S. come bottom in modern life survey 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Listening to Sibyl practicing monologues, Townes telling shaggy-dog anecdotes or Blaze punning and pontificating is like watching prospectors panning gold. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Using his usual mix of anecdotes and social psychology, the author of “Drive,” “When” and “To Sell Is Human” dismantles the trendy notion of “no regrets.” The Best-Seller List Has Some Regrets, and That’s OK 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z On the eve of leaving high school, they ditch their plans to watch the latest Ken Burns documentary in favour of going berserk at last and experiencing, as Molly puts it, “a seminal fun anecdote”. Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein: ‘Everyone said we didn’t belong in LA’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z All of Pressler’s most colorful anecdotes and appalling details have been squeezed in, sometimes tweaked to fit better within what is now a fictional narrative. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The book is replete with anecdotes and memorable incidents, some of them monuments to breathtaking excess. Review: Bio details revolution in approach to food 2012-05-07T14:57:09Z Ms. Cohen-Solal concluded with a curious anecdote about Sartre, whom she met in Paris when she was 20. With a Big Sale Looming, a New View of Rothko 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z As Kinevane cycles through minor anecdotes and big scenes, you’re tempted to say the show is a touch too thick with detail and digression. Review | Irish actor Pat Kinevane offers a solo tour de force with his award-winning ‘Silent’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z While complimenting one another on how “intelligent and qualified” they all are, the group proceeds to exchange ludicrous anecdotes about Pound, the woman. The Macabre, the Sinister, the Absurd: Story Time Just Got Weirder 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z This one is based on anecdotes told to the director Nick Ebeling and covers some of Hopper’s later career as well. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z This, added to the various crowd-sourced anecdotes that pepper the text and the gusto of the prose – centipedes, for example, are distinguished by their "extravagant legginess" – makes for irresistible dipping and rambling. Bugs Britannica by Peter Marren, edited by Richard Mabey 2010-06-11T23:15:00Z The documentary is its best when it’s straightforward, with thoughtful talking-head interviews and interesting anecdotes. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The guide’s anecdotes about life during the Soviet era are both chilling and ludicrous. Tallinn, Estonia - 36 Hours 2012-03-08T18:02:18Z The collection would be grimly funny if each of these anecdotes didn’t involve real friends, spouses and children getting shot. ‘We have been failing with guns for centuries’: A new book chronicles lives lost 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But he saw that all audiences seemed to find anecdotes involving his mother relatable. Comic, Netflix staple Jo Koy talks race, rejection in memoir 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z His book is a string of wry asides to the audience — pensées, jokes and anecdotes with the compression and tang of a Lydia Davis short story. In Alan Bennett’s Diaries, Life’s Pleasures Alongside Civic Outrage 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z It's the women in the movie who make the d**k jokes, cunningulus references and share threesome anecdotes. "Wild and raunchy": "Joy Ride" delivers a full-frontal subversion of sexuality for Asian women 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z At one moment he complained that his memory wasn’t as strong as it had been, but he was also telling anecdotes from a half-century earlier with ease. Days Before Dying, Stephen Sondheim Reflected: ‘I’ve Been Lucky’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The story then veered into an unrelated anecdote about Madonna going to Paris, and then coming back to the U.S. to learn to play guitar. Madonna slammed for paying tribute to Aretha Franklin with long story about herself 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z George, I haven’t moved on from that anecdote of the director criticizing how you kiss. When George Clooney Met Julia Roberts (Don’t Believe the Reports) 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z Night after night there is music and games, pranks and funny anecdotes, all involving A-list stars with whom Fallon interacts as admiring peer rather than benevolent dictator. A Jimmy Fallon report card: ‘Tonight Show’ rocks 2014-03-14T18:20:45Z Some of these film anecdotes about gigs from hell are amusing. '99 Layoffs' lays on a lot of laughs 2012-08-10T19:51:06Z "An Atheist in the Foxhole" mixes work anecdotes with the story of the uncomfortable hours before he was led out of Fox's office. Fox News 'mole' resurfaces with book 2013-06-03T14:02:08Z Until Christina came into our lives, these joys, sorrows, milestones of development and amusing anecdotes were all mine to retell, quietly savour or even forget. Now we are three: me, my daughter and my new fiancee 2013-07-20T08:00:00Z This being said, Winner then holds the audience for most of the hour in which he regales us with anecdotes polished to a fine gleam. Michael Winner: statesman of film 2011-03-17T22:15:02Z To embellish your origin story — to turn an everyday anecdote into a myth — is deeply human. ‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The point of the Orlando anecdote, for those readers churning through the book for helpful nuggets, is that children with autism may relate more easily to the emotions rendered so broadly by villains. ‘To Siri With Love’: The tale of a mother, a son and a phone 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z I hope this anecdote shows you just how much I love mise en place. With these 4 expert tips, you'll never fear cutting onions (or any other allium) again 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z The contestants offer biographical anecdotes while panning cameras across the objects. Antiques: Princeton?s Faculty Room and Britain?s Rail Posters 2010-05-27T21:29:00Z A short man, with alert eyes and thick hair, Helprin is a youthful 65 and full of anecdotes. Novelist Helprin spins a good yarn in life and art 2012-10-03T19:06:52Z Changing costume several times, she kept the crowd entertained with funny anecdotes and introduced other musical acts including the teenage Italian tenor group Il Volo, trumpeter Chris Botti and her son, Jason Gould. At 70, Streisand still soars in Brooklyn homecoming 2012-10-12T15:24:50Z Two anecdotes and one simple pie chart tell that inconvenient tale. Will Walmart eat L.A.? 2012-06-26T19:39:00Z The two people onstage are conspicuously playing chess; they also make toast, fiddle with a radio, drink tea and trade disconnected aphorisms and anecdotes. Review: In ‘Chess Match No. 5,’ the Words of John Cage, Deconstructed 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard Wagner. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z There are also anecdotes from his life, including a harrowing one about the shooting of one of his sons, and an uplifting one about performing for autistic children in Japan. Review: ‘Milford Graves Full Mantis’ Delivers a Lot of Heart 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Story: The film is a series of short anecdotes dramatising the pressures of modern city life, not only in Latin America. Oscars 2015: The foreign language contenders 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z One of McCluskey's eyebrows shoots north; he relishes a good anecdote. Forgive us our synths ? how 80s pop found favour again 2010-11-18T23:33:00Z The guide will entertain you with celebrity anecdotes, a smattering of history and a reasonably small number of cheesy jokes. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Orlando, Fla. 2011-03-03T21:24:16Z Among the dismissive early reviews of the novel was one by the influential critic HL Mencken, who called Gatsby little more than "a glorified anecdote". What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z The anecdote raises its own questions about who within Fox News was aware of Kelly’s debate planning and could have tipped Trump. Did Trump get a debate question in advance? Megyn Kelly says no, but questions linger. 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z It sparkles with insight, is packed with anecdote, and pulses with passion for the medium that Thomson has been attending to, worrying at and writing about all his life. The Big Screen by David Thomson – review 2012-10-12T21:55:01Z At television festivals and conferences at the turn of the millennium, there were frequent sessions and speeches asserting that programming clashes would rapidly become no more than an anecdote in the memoirs of veteran executives. Christmas Day TV schedules: Downton and Call the Midwife declare a truce 2012-12-06T12:30:57Z The gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who tells her own amusing anecdote about Cohn’s derelict payments, admits that he exploited her perch at The New York Post. ‘Bully. Coward. Victim.’ Review: The Paradox of Roy Cohn 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The "Girls" creator and star, in a statement written for Time, also said she was sorry if certain anecdotes in "Not That Kind of Girl" were "painful or triggering for people to read." Lena Dunham apologizes for her 'comic use' of 'sexual predator' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z He was gracious, inquiring and entertaining, furnished us with outrageous anecdotes eventually deemed unsuitable for publication, treated us to lunch courtesy of his wife, Nancy, and wasted the better part of his day on us. Letters: Tom Sharpe loved taking (and giving) the p… 2013-06-10T20:00:02Z But the casually offered anecdotes explaining his absence quickly emit a "Weekend at Bernie's" stench. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z But many of its songs and anecdotes define these women’s lives purely in terms of men. Theater Review | 'Good Ol? Girls': Southern Women Tell (Almost) All at the Steinberg Center 2010-03-15T21:40:00Z She begins last November’s New Yorker essay on her life-long fascination with take-out meals with an anecdote about believing the doorbell only rings when dinner’s delivered: “Family legend: I am four.” What Lena Dunham’s personal essays reveal that “Girls” doesn’t 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z On that wide and colourful stage, beside leading men such as T-Bone Walker and Lowell Fulson, he played the role of an agreeable character actor, purveying jaunty boogie songs and contemplative blues anecdotes. Jimmy McCracklin 2012-12-28T17:39:19Z An autodidact with a deeper knowledge of genre films than any of us possessed, Tarantino seemed to enjoy filling us with anecdotes and lore. Pulp Fiction at 20: When Cannes Was Cool 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Viertel favors backstage anecdotes, many of them often retold, but employed here to good effect. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z As in the first verse, but on a larger scale, the informal speaker comes in, here with the anecdote recorded by Darwin concerning a low-tech kind of genetic engineering. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z Behar started off by telling an anecdote from her days at CNN, when she ran into Schultz and jokingly asked for a latté, which he surprised her with a short time later. Whoopi Goldberg exposes Howard Schultz on "The View": You cannot run the country like Starbucks! 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But while the exhibition can’t help being a glossy commercial for its corporate subject, it still fascinates with artifacts, anecdotes, films, photographs and digital displays that give visitors the perspective of nautical explorers. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 16-22 2013-08-15T22:37:20Z You might expect that presenting a staged interview would result in a series of freeze-dried anecdotes. Theater Review | 'A Life in Three Acts': Of Youth, Frocks and Politics: A Not-So-Ordinary Life 2010-03-08T06:24:00Z Their stories give his book a supply of wild anecdotes, although the overall biography is too bleak to be fun. Review: ‘Can I Go Now?,’ a Biography of the Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Clifton Truman Daniel offered anecdotes about what it was like to be the grandson of Harry S. Truman. ‘No one talks about that. No, no no!’ At a reunion of presidential descendants, don’t ask about Trump. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z "Once that engages, there's no going back. You're in full-blown anecdote mode. The truth of what a reporter is saying is all in the direction their face is turned." Jon Stewart says Brian Williams had 'infotainment confusion syndrome' 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z And contrary to what Neeson initially seemed to believe, his anecdote revealed nothing about blackness or revenge, but everything about how whiteness functions. Liam Neeson's "black b**tard" revenge fantasy and racism's violent truths 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “I have hundreds of anecdotes that I’ve kept in a journal throughout my time at Hearst and Cosmo,” said Ms. Coles, who is an executive producer on “The Bold Type.” ‘The Bold Type,’ a Modern Gloss on Sex and the Single Girl 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z That anecdote got a laugh on my tour. In the footsteps of Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Noah Webster 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Instead, they vacillate wildly between hilarious anecdotes, irreverent inside-baseball advice and whatever you’d call a whole section on the In n’ Out Burger secret menu. I was a screenwriting guru groupie 2012-11-24T15:00:00Z It sounds like a comic anecdote, except it ultimately led to her leaving the school out of fear of violent reprisals. Romaine Brooks painted her circle of friends, but were they portraits? 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The anecdote of his unaired "Saturday Night Live" sketch for Britney Spears is especially inspired. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-06-08T23:09:00Z This is expected from a convention and its mix of cosplay, fun behind-the-scenes anecdotes and an emphasis on process. At BroadwayCon, Fans Get a Curtain Call 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z MCC Theater Plots Revenge for ‘Carrie’ Hide the pigs, cancel the prom and dust off your anecdotes about one of Broadway’s most notorious flops. MCC Theater Plots Revenge for ?Carrie? 2010-10-05T22:30:00Z When I asked about her relationship with them, she was reticent—no anecdotes, no self-aggrandizement. The Librarian of Congress and the Greatness of Humility 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z “The Songs We Know Best” offers up a feast of new details, documents and colorful anecdotes that will be foundational for any future understanding of Ashbery. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Kalb is the “you,” the audience for her no-nonsense grandmother’s family anecdotes, wisecracks and warnings. The Ghost Writer: An Author Imagines a Letter From Her Late Grandmother 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The flu epidemic makes a brief appearance in “True Grit,” and it’s exactly the sort of historical subject upon which he could converse with the fluency and anecdote of someone who’d survived it personally. Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Media Matters also disputed an anecdote O’Reilly told in his book "Killing Kennedy." O'Reilly defends his war reporting record again, this time in El Salvador 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Our wide-ranging conversation covered many of the expected areas: his sense of humor, his influences, behind-the-scenes production anecdotes, and hints of episodes to come. An interview with the dean of "Community" 2011-09-28T22:30:00Z Which is more than can be said for My Story, in which most of her anecdotes fall flat, like the kind of pub stories that are followed by pregnant silences. Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing 2010-12-13T07:59:00Z Another Bart anecdote recalls a very angry Warren Beatty, who had had a serious relationship with Christie, demanding that the scene be re-edited because it was so graphic. New book says "Don't Look Now" sex scene was real 2011-03-23T22:51:22Z He perks up any time he can deflect the conversation to an anecdote about someone else in his life. Mark Wahlberg: ‘I played golf with Donald Trump. He was very Donald Trump-like’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Often joined by family and friends, the conversations traveled beyond family anecdotes to get at the heart of what it means to bring recipes from our pasts into our present. Why it's so hard to recreate your grandma's chicken 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z Word geeks will especially enjoy an anecdote about a drunken teenage Martinez's New Year's Eve in the slammer, where he rants at his jailers about the poor grammar on his arrest report. 'Boy Kings of Texas': a tough, tender tale of growing up in the barrio 2012-08-15T18:54:04Z Whether it's the rebellious charisma of the man or the tragedy of his premature death, Prefontaine's legend lives on here through the anecdotes of his coaches, family, friends and rivals. Ten of the best running documentaries 2013-03-01T07:53:41Z At this point in his anecdote, the old proprietor's eyes became glazed with sentimental pleasure. Nights Out by Judith R Walkowitz - review 2012-05-18T08:00:04Z So I might use an anecdote from last year about when I was in San Francisco and visited the house where Kenneth Anger lived in the ’60s. | Justin Bond 2010-12-07T19:09:00Z De Niro described anecdotes from parents who say they saw their children change “overnight” after receiving vaccines. Robert De Niro Defends Anti-Vaccine Documentary 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z He’s the writer whose books were mostly made up of unusual facts and anecdotes, which he used to build surprisingly strong novelistic bird’s nests. In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ Paranoia Is Delivered With Humor 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Freeman's personal anecdotes even start to feel like a plot. Your next box set: Through the Wormhole 2011-07-14T18:59:01Z Every anecdote and memory is as much about Ritter as the remembered events themselves. ‘Compass’: Mathias Énard’s brilliant dark night of the soul 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z For consolation, we must make do with the occasional juicy anecdote, like when the producers of “Alien” nixed the original design for the creature’s eggs because their openings were “too vaginalike.” Review: ‘Dark Star’ Peers Into H. R. Giger’s Creative World 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z She sent us an anecdote – in fact it is a short story to rival Maupassant or Hemingway in its power and brevity of expression. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z And then, of course, I suppose Irish people do put so much value on anecdote. Marian Keyes: 'I thought I'd never be able to write again' 2013-04-21T08:00:17Z But despite such positive anecdotes, radical bookshops are still clearly engaged in a struggle for survival. The return of radical bookshops 2010-04-12T08:34:00Z According to the newspaper, Tarantino first made the claims in 1992, and repeated the anecdote on an episode of the US talk show Real Time with Bill Maher as recently as this year. Quentin Tarantino denies New York Post's bogus jail time claims 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The 73-minute-long film, in Greek, Arabic and English with English subtitles, is an idiosyncratic piece — a visually rich set of scenes and anecdotes musing on the moral, political and logistical challenges posed by immigration. ‘Evaporating Borders’ details the challenges of immigration in Cyprus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z That's just a small sampling of the entertaining and sordid anecdotes that can be found in archives devoted to Gilded Age show business. Joe Exotic channels the spirit of America’s 19th-century tiger kings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z The show ends with an anecdote about a geriatric wombat that David took care of at the National Zoo. Behind the Poster: 'Wombat Drool' 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The anecdote is a long way of telling you that my spies report vigilant service in the absence of a restaurant reviewer. Gypsy Soul: R.J. Cooper brings a wanderer’s touch and Southern flair Having been the senior obituary writer for the New York Times, Fox long ago learned the reader-appealing usefulness of the melodramatic sentence and weird anecdote. Review | The greatest prison escape ever? ‘The Confidence Men’ tells a sensational true story. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Was it around the time of a stardom-confirming nod from Spielberg and Jackson that he began scribbling down incidents and anecdotes for the autobiography? Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z He’s kind in his recollections, he’s full of explosive anecdotes and hilarious observations. Armistead Maupin charms in Seattle 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z Maybe more surprising, though, are Schumer’s anecdotes about what it’s like being a woman in comedy. Amy Schumer: Death threats have made me want to “use my voice even more” 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Early in his exposé, Parker acknowledges, “Most people have jazzed up an anecdote, and it is a novelist’s job to manipulate an audience.” If the author of ‘Woman in the Window’ is a serial liar, can we still love his book? 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Glass debuted the show, which is full of personal anecdotes and beyond-the-studio stories, this month at Mountain Winery in California. ‘This American Life’ host is swapping radio studio for Wolf Trap stage 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z "He was wonderfully articulate about his memories, he had anecdotes to share." 'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Karl Slover dies at 93 2011-11-16T11:32:08Z A heated back and forth ensued about federal assistance and those who abuse it, with a few anecdotes tossed in for good measure. We’re the face of food stamps 2012-10-16T22:30:00Z The anecdote captures Ms. Grubman’s uniquely contentious place in New York’s pantheon of characters. Is Lizzie Grubman a Changed ‘Party Girl’? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z I start with a personal anecdote — I bookend it with my son being in school, and then with me being in school when I was in eighth grade. John Leguizamo begins teaching his 'Latin History for Dummies' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z You were supposed to be a delicious anecdote at a dinner party, a giggle with girlfriends, a drunken, “Do you remember when…” A letter to… my friend with benefits 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z The songs were interspersed with amusing personal anecdotes, some of which will probably be included in a memoir she is writing. Music Review: Barbara Cook, at 86, Swings at Symphony Space 2014-04-27T20:09:14Z His framing device seems initially an excuse for stringing together a parade of entertaining anecdotes: A mysterious Mr. Inbelicate hires someone dubbed Inscriptino to produce a manuscript based on decades of Pickwickian research. ‘Death and Mr. Pickwick’ asks if Dickens stole his famous first novel 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Sample anecdote: Mr. Yetnikoff imagines visiting Tahiti, and dropping the names of Billy Joel and Neil Diamond, and meeting Paul Gauguin. ‘Respect’ Tells Aretha Franklin’s Life Story 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z "Silence," the book's opener, takes its inspiration from an entry in Henry James' notebooks about an anecdote James heard from Lady Gregory, the Irish dramatist and folklorist. In 'The Empty Family,' Colm T?ib?n's penetrating eye sees all: straight, gay, past, present 2011-01-12T22:50:04Z It should be just an anecdote here, not the anchor of the story. Farmworkers ill served by 'Food Chains' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z They settle into an easy going rapport by sharing honest anecdotes about their own romantic misadventures. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 2: Failure to Change 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z I shall tell you the rest of anecdote if you invite this guest for your celebration. The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The common soldier is useful only for anecdotes. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Eric’s jokes are about the mundane details of our everyday lives together that he somehow twists, shimmies and polishes into hilarious anecdotes. When Your Love Life Is a Punch Line 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z And he later added an anecdote about what happened after “God told me he was going to make me president.” That viral Idaho debate was not the “best ever” 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z There are no odd anecdotes from Saturday night’s performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion — and that might be a good thing. L.A. Opera's 'Tosca': No gimmicks, just some powerhouse singing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z In other hands, this gigglesome parade of outrageous anecdotes might feel insubstantial. Greg Davies – review 2012-11-05T19:08:06Z Gregg’s clever and provocative book is full of irreverent notions and funny anecdotes — the creative upside to being a human animal. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Their anecdotes, often related at remorseless length, are for the most part bland. Chateau Despair by Lisa Barnard; The Real Iron Lady by Gillian Shephard – review 2013-03-25T11:00:01Z There are hundreds of anecdotes like mine about the influence that Hesser has had on home cooks. How Amanda Hesser changed the way we cook 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z What could be dry texts on, say, papal relations in the 13th century and the French resistance in World War II become easily digestible anecdotes about Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the Kir cocktail. A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z And while filled with some compelling anecdotes and considerable detail throughout, the book does little to explain what exactly was happening. Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z “It was only when they met with old comrades from the Resistance that they would talk about it in front of us. This anecdote always made them laugh.” Where the Resistance Helped Plan the Liberation of Paris 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Full of fascinating anecdotes and academic argument, this book is an incisive, exciting tour that brings us all the way up to contemporary hoaxsters such as Rachel Dolezal. Best books of 2017: The best nonfiction 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A surgeon’s wife poses her body around a lush hotel bed, unzips the dress Don’s bought her to reveal the darkest-black negligee, a few domestic anecdotes, a quickening competence for role-playing. Mad Men Watch: It’s Not Butter, It’s Heartbreak 2013-05-13T13:30:44Z The story ends with an anecdote about how Turner responded, three years ago, when he was named his high school’s Athlete of the Week. Brock Turner’s victim has dreams and a future, too: Sympathy for convicted sex offender is grossly misplaced 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z And it’s full of terrific anecdotes about the casting of films like “Midnight Cowboy” and “The World According to Garp.” Critic’s Notebook: TV Shows at Moments of Creation 2013-07-28T19:05:05Z This he does with rather too much cheer, as if sharing a cute anecdote: “I have to tell you that a very special little world has died.” From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Even the throwaway anecdotes in “Believer” are revealing. David Axelrod’s ‘Believer: My Forty Years in Politics’ 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z We set up on a bench facing the Old Treasury Building, the oldest public building in the city, as the walking tours we’d spotted earlier trooped through intermittently, spouting historical anecdotes. New parents take baby steps toward family travel with a three-day getaway to Annapolis 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z During her appearance on Hayes’s show, Troye said she “chuckled a bit” when she read an anecdote in the Atlantic piece that referenced Swift. Former Trump aide said she was told not to play Taylor Swift at the White House 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z The anecdote was evidently a familiar crowd-pleaser; here's another version of its telling, much of the phrasing exactly the same. ArtsBeat: Wales Honors Native Sons Richard Burton and Michael Sheen 2012-10-17T19:29:44Z Brilliant editing by Edward Osei-Gyimah arranges many of the film’s priceless black-and-white performance clips into witty illustrations of the gals’ anecdotes. Movie Review: ‘The Girls in the Band,’ a Documentary by Judy Chaikin 2013-05-10T00:44:26Z In the end I managed to incorporate the anecdotes and experiences of 650 people from 81 countries. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z Police brutality is not a surprise to us; it is an all too common personal experience; it is not the stuff of anecdotes, abstraction, or apocryphal storytelling. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Theroux offers both quotations from and anecdotes about many of the best of them. Paul Theroux?s Travel Miscellany 2011-06-03T16:52:27Z “How come they don’t write like that then?” he asks, as though he doesn’t totally trust his friend’s anecdote. Randy Newman cared enough about his new album to help pay for it 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Case in point: Scenes inside a homey Turkish restaurant where an anecdote reveals an unexpected ending. From Old Disco to New Media, Istanbul Capitalizes on Biennial 2011-09-14T20:56:03Z I generally talk to people about “stuff,” and personal anecdotes may or may not be a part of any conversation. Carolyn Hax: The fine line between being caring and being nosy 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z But Mr. Isaacson, who worked with Mr. Jobs on the book for two and a half years, said that it was not fair to Mr. Jobs, or the book, to cherry-pick the Bad Steve anecdotes. The Steve Jobs Backlash 2011-11-02T23:13:20Z You don't have to be a regular at Lord's to enjoy Mortimer's well-chosen anecdotes. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z As much as the authors try to insist on Jobs’s psychological metamorphosis, many of the quotes and anecdotes they use undermine their analysis. Jobs 2.0 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z At its best, the book shares McWilliams’s bountiful gift for anecdote, the dumbfounded glee of a happy transplant like Banham and Davis’s compassion for those traditionally airbrushed out of the picture. The City of Angels, Viewed Through a Prism 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z “Among my middle-aged peers — my female and gay male peers, mostly — she was still an object of fascination,” writes Vanessa Grigoriadis, who follows with an interesting anecdote. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z He isn’t around anymore to confirm any details, but our family remembers a few anecdotes from his pitching years. Growing Up 'Mad Men:' My Mom Is a Real-Life Sally Draper 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z It's not enough," he writes in Captif, "just to write a few anecdotes. My hero Jean Genet by Ahdaf Soueif 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z He told us anecdotes, what the experience was like for him. Mike Faist Tries to Keep His Cool as Riff in ‘West Side Story’ 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z But his punchlines emerge from anecdotes filled with details about curious characters he’s met, tales that have the quirkiness and surprise of what you find in a sensitively observed short story. 5 Standup Specials to Stream for the Labor Day Weekend 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z As the wine flowed, the chefs grew increasingly competitive and their anecdotes got juicier and juicier. Warning: chefs behaving properly 2013-07-18T06:00:11Z These anecdotes and others paint Will as a man newly enlightened in middle age, augmenting the show's epiphanic tone. The Smiths recall their bestselling product: the "unique union" that is Will and Jada's marriage 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z Individual anecdotes often give Nix-Gomez the most pleasure from his research. What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Taking a break from Emi and her plight, Jude compiles a “short dictionary of anecdotes, signs and wonders.” ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ Review: No Sex, Please, We’re Romanian 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Dr. Welch, who first taught Mr. Grant 30 years ago, likes to characterize his friend’s peripatetic career in an anecdote. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The sketch pokes fun at a number of movie promotion rituals and late-night customs, like the way pre-planned anecdotes are passed off as spontaneous interactions. Amy Schumer Parodies Celebrity Late-Night Interviews with Bill Hader 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z In one oft-repeated anecdote, he once used a chain saw to cut through a hotel room wall. A Word With: Irving Azoff, a Hard-Charging Artists’ Manager 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z And I’m not a gamer, so the production’s fantasy that we would play Super Mario and that would lead to a charming anecdote for this article instead led to, well, whatever this is. Meet the 19-Year-Old ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Actor Who’s Charming Broadway 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The loquacious raconteur is saving the gritty anecdotes for an autobiography that he will start writing in a month or two. Robbie Robertson's no-fuss career frustrates fans 2011-04-07T20:49:54Z But how the comedian investigates that isn’t always direct; Genzlinger also called the show “an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole.” What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Thank God for Jokes’ and ‘Queen America’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Hemingway anecdote is memorable because the story is so poignant in such a small space. Readers recommend songs with 10 words or fewer: The results 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z In one anecdote, his plane is diverted by bad weather from Frankfurt, forcing him to go to Stockholm. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The store was mostly deserted, save for an Orthodox Jew and a stout businessman exchanging Russian anecdotes on the lounge terrace. T Magazine: Lady Miss Kiev 2011-11-18T18:03:26Z Her poetry was known for its use of fables, anecdotes and extended metaphors, often peppered with irony and bitter humor. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z In his 2000 memoir, King shares personal anecdotes, offers priceless advice, and details his near-death experience of being hit by a car. Stephen King: 10 More Books He Should Write Sequels To 2013-09-26T09:45:09Z When interviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams in April, Slagle shared this anecdote, the ethos of which is woven throughout her cookbook: 5 of our favorite cookbooks to carry you into 2023 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z This contrast is obvious enough when you juxtapose the powerful abstractions of Terry Frost and Patrick Heron with the actual, tourist-strewn landscape, but wherever possible Fox sharpened it with an anecdote. TV review: At Home With the Georgians 2010-12-03T08:00:00Z “Over the subsequent years I’ve appeared in front of tens of thousands of people in a concertlike setting in which I would do, in essence, stand-up — anecdotes, stories, answers and questions,” he said. ?Shatner?s World: We Just Live in It? Heads to Broadway 2012-02-14T16:41:40Z The critic Tim Page offers anecdotes and historical tidbits about the famous space. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z Still, it’s distinguished by Jones’s sense of humor, his way with self-deprecating anecdotes and a candor that’s as bracing as the opening riff of the Pistols’s “God Save the Queen.” ‘Lonely Boy’ review: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones riffs on an era of theft, drugs and punk 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z In one telling anecdote, he recalls Johnson complaining about how demeaning it was to “beg for money from folks that all want something.” How Endangered Is American Democracy? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Episode of the year: Billy Crystal, who drops the schmaltz and fires out one world-class anecdote after another. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z To find this slim volume, its breezy pages of tips and anecdotes, stories and, in the back, recipes, is a lovely salve. Review | You know what else you’re doing wrong? Laundry. Don’t worry, a new book offers hope. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z A few of these first took shape as bedtime stories for the great wit’s two sons, but others resemble the adult parables and anecdotes with which Wilde effortlessly charmed London dinner parties. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z He tells the anecdote with nostalgia, but I'm disappointed. Christopher Meyer: 'I wasn't nice to everyone' 2012-07-01T18:59:01Z Such descriptions are common in “Sight,” a novel in which Greengrass shares few memories or anecdotes or even observations about her characters. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z This is not David Sedaris doctoring a quirky anecdote about his family. This American Life?s Apple Retraction: The Danger of Truthiness 2012-03-16T19:32:44Z Along with the photos he will also share anecdotes and stories providing behind-the-scenes context and insight into their relationship. Is Everyone in Politics Writing a Tell-all? Yes. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z I’m not sure whether telling these anecdotes is useful. Perspective | ‘He never harassed me’ isn’t evidence. It’s misdirection. 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z But the anecdotes from her life that Salie recalls here, of striving for achievement and affirmation, reflect gendered expectations and social pressures that many women will recognize. Review: Getting a Moral Fix From ‘Approval Junkie’ 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z But if prompted, local taxi drivers will eagerly offer anecdotes from the summer of 1974 and point out "Jaws bridge," where the giant shark famously swam into the pond. "Jaws" aura still thrashing on Martha's Vineyard 2010-07-07T15:34:00Z The book is filled with such lovely anecdotes, many from Thomas’s own rich life of natural adventure, whether surveying sparrows in Italy or encountering pygmy elephants in Borneo. We Aren’t Destroying the Earth 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z And the last reason for my anecdote is that I want to talk about the difference between inspiration and appropriation. Stephen King’s Reign of Terror Continues in a New Novel 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z With a dramaturge’s expert timing, Fierstein saves the most difficult anecdote of his upbringing for near the end, like the classic 11 o’clock number in musical theater. Harvey Fierstein Sings the Song of Himself in ‘I Was Better Last Night’ 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The anecdote reinforced Ms. Paige’s image as a chipper good sport. Music Review: Elaine Paige at the Allen Room, Friendly and Confessional 2012-02-13T23:21:13Z Claiming that was "the siren song," McCain expressed dissatisfaction with Goldberg's personal anecdote. Meghan McCain has already had a meltdown about the alleged “war on Christmas,” and it is only... 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen will be at the screening to provide anecdotes and elucidation. ‘Q’ at Quad Cinema: Oh, on the Wings of Serpents 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Her predecessor, Ms. Huckabee Sanders, urged Americans to watch a right-wing propaganda video “whether it’s accurate or not” and fabricated an anecdote about F.B.I. agents. Bully Pulpit No More: Jen Psaki’s Turn at the Lectern 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Detailing Martin’s work with entertaining, illuminating anecdotes, Kaufman comes up with a solid, valuable portrait of one of the 20th century’s most memorable actresses. Mary Martin — from Weatherford, Tex., to Broadway stardom 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The author Charles Fishman shared anecdotes from his book “One Giant Leap,” including a story about the Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972 jury-rigging a fender on the lunar rover using laminated maps and duct tape. Review | NSO and NASA join to celebrate the moon landing on an orchestral scale 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z Photograph: Paul Thomas/Getty This busy section of the American prankster site College Humor collects anecdotes about parents and grandparents struggling valiantly to keep abreast with information technology. Internet picks of the week 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z And although it purports to be about failure – asking its competitors to tell anecdotes about when they've made fools of themselves — it's actually about comedians shoe-horning little bits of their routines on to the radio. Rewind radio: Stand Up for Comic Relief; So Wrong It's Right; It is Rocket Science ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:41Z The 77-year-old played to a packed house at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas with an evening of anecdotes about his life and career. Cosby carries on with one-man show 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z The arguments presented are thoughtful, articulate, well documented, logical and made accessible by many personal anecdotes and pop culture references. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z First came “Ghetto Superstar,” his solo show, which mixed autobiographical anecdotes with songs. Billy Porter Tells His Own Story in ‘While I Yet Live’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Just remember that until we find a workable solution, you don’t have to become another anecdote in an air-rage article. Perspective | As unruly airline passenger incidents take off, a search for solutions 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The sharper point in this thigh-high anecdote is that men and women do not even appear to be watching the same video. The sexual-harassment epidemic has been diagnosed. What’s the cure? 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Trenchant and colourful anecdotes abound, along with some surprising facts. Gunning for the G-word 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Despite his passionate condemnation of racism and imperial arrogance, it is Achebe's gentle irony, ready laughter and his delight in anecdotes about our children's antics that I most vividly remember. Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z Theatergoers in folding chairs and on picnic blankets ringed the Reflecting Pool for 100 minutes of boisterous harmonies and anecdotes about the largesse of a small Newfoundland community. Perspective | A Broadway musical on the National Mall opens hearts to memories of 9/11 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Two standout anecdotes in “Every Day” clearly helped shape her philosophy. Tiffany Haddish and Vivica A. Fox — Who Narrate Their Memoirs With Snap and Spirit — Have Some Advice for You 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z This technique is based on an anecdote from Willis Carrier, founder of the modern air-conditioning industry. 5 Ways to Conquer Fear and Anxiety, According to Dale Carnegie 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Despite the hilarious anecdotes, this is not a collection of gossip. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z I have a very bad memory for bad things, but for the good stuff, anecdotes and funny stories, I am very good. Whether He’s Talking ‘Amélie’ or ‘Bigbug,’ Jean-Pierre Jeunet Doesn’t Hold Back 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Perlman played eight sweet and flashy encores, which he picked, miming impatience, from a huge stack of sheet music before introducing them with the odd anecdote or droll comment. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z "He was a great storyteller with lots of anecdotes about his experiences of discovering these birds in the wild." Philly museum brings 'Birds of America' to public 2011-11-26T17:33:09Z Eggers: They exist as an anecdote or a statistic. Dave Eggers on working for justice through oral history: “There wasn’t much that allowed those people to seem fully human” 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Which reminds me of a wonderful anecdote about Simon Gray, a man not much given to generosity. Digested read: The Fry Chronicles by Stephen Fry 2010-09-20T20:00:00Z One of the best anecdotes in “Eye on the Struggle” takes place at the Bandung Conference, a meeting of African and Asian states, in 1955. Review: The Reporter Ethel Payne in ‘Eye on the Struggle’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Many anecdotes mention what “may or may not still be open cases,” Baker explained. Shout Out to the Bodega Boys, From the Bronx to the Best-Seller List 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z That’s especially true in the longer pieces, where moments of wisdom punctuate sprawling narratives with multiple anecdotes. The best poetry books for January take on race, current events, love and loss 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z I tend to recall the anecdotes and scene-setting by the presenters, rather than the bursts of music, however intriguing they may be. Radio review: World Routes 2011-07-17T19:59:00Z It’s not a narrative; it’s a history and an analysis sprinkled with anecdotes. Hemingway as the Godfather of Long-form 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Well as a lawyer he should read the entire transcript of what I said, as opposed to the one selective anecdote on CNN that then everybody commented on. Politics is a “blood sport”: Roger Stone on his CNN ban, the “real” Donald Trump and the billionaire’s scheme to lure delegates 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Emily Carr’s journal entries are a delight to read, and include many anecdotes about her camping trips and the places where she found inspiration. Vancouver Island, Through an Artist’s Eyes 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z That way, when the aliens come looking for some mildly amusing anecdotes to take back to their planet when they blow ours to smithereens, this one will be primed and ready to go. David Spade: This is why Eddie Murphy hated me, wouldn’t come back to “Saturday Night Live” 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z In addition to being a social handbook, the book also includes behind-the-scenes anecdotes from both administrations. Is Everyone in Politics Writing a Tell-all? Yes. 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z And this time, when I went back to the other people involved in the anecdotes, they said, “Yes, that’s what happened,” and would tell me more details. Robert Caro Reflects on Robert Moses, L.B.J., and His Own Career in Nonfiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z A capable host should possess the standing to send a clue back — and to gracefully neutralize a player, as Jennings did when he replied to one contestant’s personal anecdote with Alex’s brusque “good for you.” What Should the New ‘Jeopardy!’ Be? Guest Hosts Provide the Clues. 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Whoopi Goldberg introduced the tribute, opening with an anecdote: “The first time I met Whitney, she saved my life.” Billboard Music Awards 2012: Best and Worst Moments 2012-05-21T15:19:29Z Dickson loads every page with facts, anecdotes and telling details about life under Prohibition. ‘To Have and Have Another’: Ring in your new year as Hemingway might 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Packed with miscellaneous delights — phrases, jokes, anecdotes, lovely sentences — they read like secret autobiographies, back catalogs of joy and heartbreak. Review: J. D. McClatchy’s Secret Autobiography, in Quotations 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Ferrante is currently holding forth at ACT Theatre in his touring show, "An Evening with Groucho," a 90-minute seance that dips into the great trove of Groucho gags, one-liners, patter songs and anecdotes. 'An Evening with Groucho': Marx impersonator brings show to ACT 2012-05-03T20:21:13Z With comical and heartbreaking anecdotes, Danovich points to how hen keeping has shifted her perspective and altered her behavior. “Under the Henfluence” urges us to see hens as complex beings 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Publishers Weekly predicted it "should prove itself a classic" with its "savory recipes, witty anecdotes, delightful aphorisms and fascinating folklore." Writer Nava Atlas reflects on the (vegan) return of her cult-classic "Vegetariana" cookbook 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z My father liked to exaggerate and embellish and push an anecdote to its limits. With Turturro, Italy Knows No Bounds 2010-03-03T00:09:00Z Each photo is accompanied by a caption that might be as simple as a list of names or, more interestingly, short anecdotes. Rescued from history: The baseball teams of East Los Angeles 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Short of stature, and with a broad smile, Granado remained a benign observer of Cuban developments and, in later years, became a permanent source of anecdotes about Guevara. Alberto Granado obituary 2011-03-07T19:25:12Z There were years of loneliness, body-shaming and racism — Gay includes an anecdote from when she opened her acceptance letter to Yale within eyeshot of a white male peer: “He looked at me with plain disgust. ‘ Roxane Gay's 'Hunger' is ferociously honest 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Fancher relates this anecdote about traveling in fast, starry company in “Escapes,” a thoroughly charming, thoroughly engaging portrait of this great adventurer written, directed and produced by Michael Almereyda. Review: ‘Escapes’ Recounts a Hollywood Storyteller’s Inventive Life 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Instead, Knisley has crafted a collection of one-page anecdotes and lovingly scrawled sense memories of her early days as a new mother. Cartoonists Tackle the Big Stuff: O.C.D., Motherhood and Too Many Books 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Surrounded by massive replicas of Fonda’s most memorable magazine covers, the night’s big speakers -- including Cameron Diaz, Lily Tomlin and Michael Douglas -- shared touching anecdotes about the industry veteran. Five things we learned about Jane Fonda at her AFI tribute 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z It's a smoothly sceptical essay: partly contra-Gladwellian, but with the same comfy furniture of sports anecdotes and chirpy scientists. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice - review 2012-08-17T21:55:04Z Beauregard adds another anecdote to the litany, the story of another cardiac patient who was resuscitated and later recounted seeing a particular nurse while his brain was not functional. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z “Seek and Speak Your Truth,” a chapter of “Lean In,” is filled with charming anecdotes about representative instances at Facebook. This is how “Lean In” feminism evolves: By smashing that “special place in Hell” that keeps us silent 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Chapters have the propulsive thrust of anecdotes; his exuberant excess is the dominant charm. Review | Quentin Tarantino turned his last movie into a novel, but don’t think you know the ending 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z David McCullough reads his biography of the Midwestern Wright brothers in a wise, New England-tinctured voice, bringing both a flair for engineering detail and a generosity with anecdote. Book World: 5 stories to relish even with your eyes closed 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Though the Apples are a reasonably literate lot, citing anecdotes about presidents past and quoting lines from sources as different as Oscar Wilde and Regina Spektor, they are not speechifiers. Theater Review: ‘Sorry,’ by Richard Nelson, at the Public Theater 2012-11-07T19:53:52Z Having piqued your interest, Maddow now broadens her narrative and explains why this anecdote is an apt illustration of the book’s larger point — the centrality and influence of the oil and gas industry. Rachel Maddow Takes On the Oil Industry 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z "He was like a volcano of anecdotes," he said. Marvin Hamlisch, who composed 'Chorus Line,' dies at 68 2012-08-07T23:28:03Z Many would agree that his pseudonym was aptly chosen: Mr. Anger’s volatility is the stuff of many an anecdote. Kenneth Anger, 96, Dies; Experimental Filmmaker Left a Pop Culture Legacy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z A salad showcasing white flower mushrooms prompts an anecdote about the last trip the owners took to Myanmar, three years ago. Review | Yet again, Thamee reinvents itself. The constant is the chef’s soulful cooking. 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “Mlodinow handles this topic astutely. … He writes in a brisk, friendly style that easily draws you in and makes you reflect on both the recounted anecdotes and your own way of handling comparable situations.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It is full of satirical, sarcastic - and signature - Newman anecdotes about someone who votes for the president because he is white. Randy Newman writes new satirical, political song 2012-09-18T12:16:06Z In a breezy history, brimming with new details, Ghazvinian combines pithy descriptions and poignant anecdotes. What Has Gone Wrong Between Iran and the United States? 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Each familiar face dispensed a revealing anecdote or incisive zinger to box up a complex issue. When good TV goes bad: how The West Wing went south 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z But Marx knew the human world is an arena of struggle and history more than a collection of reassuring anecdotes. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Instead, it was all about his extraordinary voice, his words and anecdotes, captured on reel-to-reel home tapes that he used to record things for posterity. Radio review: Satchmo by Satchmo 2011-07-27T21:30:00Z The book is sprinkled with small, vivid anecdotes that bring day-to-day counterterrorism work to life. Books of The Times: ?Counterstrike,? by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker ? Review 2011-09-04T22:27:46Z The anecdotes Springsteen relates have a shaggy dog quality, but the feelings they summon in him inspire the choice turns of phrase and vivid imagery of his best songs. 'Springsteen on Broadway': A rock-star confessional with heart 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Ed Patrick’s Comedian’s Surgery is a perfect mix of medical insights and hilarious anecdotes. Sandra: Gimlet's siri drama starring Alia Shawkat - podcasts of the week 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Long consigned to the realm of anecdote and legend, this ambitious project was revisited by De Middel in a photobook that combines myth and reality in constructed colour photographs, drawings and letters. Deutsche Börse 2013 – a shortlist that's short of photographers 2012-11-26T16:32:00Z The show is two parts anecdote to one part verse. Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in 27 Years On – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-07T15:29:24Z Peppered with illuminating anecdotes from famous siblings and from the author's own life, this book is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in human relationships. 'The Sibling Effect' charts the enduring influence of brothers and sisters 2011-10-05T23:03:03Z Though it still spends considerable time on elder-care anecdotes — stories that are heart-rending but at this point familiar — it also acknowledges difficult questions of costs, rights and medical capabilities. Review: ‘Caring for Mom & Dad’ on PBS Looks at Elder Care Struggles 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z There are far too few anecdotes amid the bolts of tulle, satin and crinoline that drape page after page, forcing Klein to rely on her formidable fashion knowledge to pave over the narrative. Books Are the New Black 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The chronology would appear no more ordered than the flow of anecdotes around a dinner table, but there’s always a design to Enright’s novels, a gradual coalescing of insight. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Her refreshing lack of vanity can be captured in one telling movie anecdote. Helen Mirren: on stage or on screen, long may she reign over us 2013-03-10T00:06:15Z At times, it’s hard to keep up — but a mercurial stream of facts and anecdotes is only apt. New & Noteworthy, From Astrophysics to Reading Nabokov 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z And while trite may be preferable to embarrassing anecdotes from the bride and groom’s childhood, that’s an awfully low bar. A Wedding Day Saga Ends With Words From the Heart 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s all in Isenberg’s account, and “Casablanca” fans will find it to be a treasure trove of facts and anecdotes. You Must Remember This: Why We Return to ‘Casablanca’ and ‘High Noon’ 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z There is not an ounce of pedantry in his 85-minute monologue, an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole. Review: In ‘Thank God for Jokes,’ Mike Birbiglia Tells His Side of the Story 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z In one anecdote from “Elegy for Iris,” he wrote of their last swim together at a favorite spot along a small river in Oxford, she in “her shabby old one-piece swimsuit.” John Bayley, Oxford Don Who Wrote of His Wife, Iris Murdoch, Dies at 89 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z I may sprinkle a personal anecdote into my lead, or broaden my purview to talk about history and tradition, but ultimately I feel chained to the art. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z Isaacson, whose other books include biographies of Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin and Henry Kissinger, uses anecdotes from friends, family, colleagues and adversaries to illustrate sometimes deep contradictions in Jobs. 'Steve Jobs' delves deep into complex man's life 2011-10-24T13:43:50Z She offers one scene, for instance, now a staple of the genre, in which Marie’s friends describe her with an innocent matter-of-factness that actually paints her in a few small anecdotes as a sociopath. Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z This is one of the problems of building a case on anecdotes; without knowledge of the range and likelihood of various results, one can’t distinguish the selective presentation of chance events from a measurable phenomenon. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z Instead, I’ll simply relate a personal anecdote from almost 20 years ago. Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z He offers an anecdote by way of example. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But almost immediately he's launched into a different anecdote about a legal threat from another customer, which he has actually kept and framed. Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z Elena: There were questions and chatter and anecdotes throughout the whole dinner. Date Lab: Chemistry! Conversation! Everything but a number exchange. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Taylor’s book opens with an anecdote about her stepfather, Ron. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The book, frustratingly, reveals little about the man – anecdotes are garnered from industry professionals rather than personal friends. Terence Donovan Fashion edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman – review 2012-12-16T00:05:04Z At East Bay Resort, I signed up for a land tour with Jeremiah Forbes, an islander who mixes local trivia with folksy anecdotes. Despite the Caribbean country’s name, Turks and Caicos is not a duo like Batman and Robin 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Buried within some of these charming anecdotes are important lessons for collectors. Art Review: ?The Steins Collect,? Matisse and Picasso, at the Met 2012-03-01T23:11:06Z Heidi is speaking at a gathering of her high school alumnae, but instead of the usual manicured, upbeat speech, she delivers an off-the-cuff, emotionally exposed anecdote. Review: ‘The Heidi Chronicles,’ With Elisabeth Moss, Opens on Broadway 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z But as the news circulated, I spent a few weeks repeating my anecdote to friends — benevolent mogul helps young reporter — before I realized I didn’t know what the point of telling it was. Perspective | ‘He never harassed me’ isn’t evidence. It’s misdirection. 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z On just about every page, there’s an anecdote or remark to make you laugh. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The interviewees offer anecdotes about their mothers and grandmothers, and reflect on how the relationships nourished them. ‘In Our Mothers’ Gardens’ Review: Creating Space for Black Women 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z He took this anecdote about the shower, labeled it “The Unseen” and made it the “U” chapter in his fluky, perversely appealing encyclopedia-style volume. Books of The Times: The Weird, Wide World of Bugs in Hugh Raffles?s ?Insectopedia? 2010-03-24T23:08:00Z Adam Hills and Jason Byrne share some pretty shocking Late and Live anecdotes and there's the latest top five festival tips from the Guardian's Andrew Dickson. Amnesty comedy podcast: episode 6 2010-08-20T10:13:00Z Jennifer Lawrence has drawn scathing criticism for an anecdote she told on the BBC, about disrespecting local customs while shooting in Hawaii. Jennifer Lawrence offends with story about 'butt-scratching' on sacred rocks 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The actor also stresses the diversity of his writers’ room, which includes “a lot of diverse talent who were born in the 80s or earlier”, as well as himself recounting anecdotes from his childhood. 'I’ve seen how uprisings have come from pain': Idris Elba on Black Lives Matter 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z And that he told you, in some detail, but was then interrupted after about five minutes by the arrival of dessert, at which point the anecdote was stopped cold. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z I find myself increasingly irritated by how these anecdotes and quotes from comedy shows dominate time with our friends and family. I’m beginning to find my husband’s humour a turnoff 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Our Founding Father set out the principles for a nation dedicated to self-invention, and almost 150 years later Carnegie reduced those principles to pages of wit-free advice and homespun anecdotes. Analysis | New York Public Library’s most checked-out books say a lot about what we read and why 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z For fans who remember Lindsay-Hogg’s film, or have read dismal anecdotes in any of dozens of Beatles books, Jackson’s scenes of lighthearted antics and creative breakthroughs jump off the screen. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z You do realise this is the second Doctor Who anecdote in Pass Notes in as many days? Pass notes No 2,770 2010-04-27T19:00:00Z This is why I started the whole book with the anecdote about my grandma. In defense of single people 2012-07-09T01:00:00Z Her mum is trying to help focus her attention by emailing her own anecdotes. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But I love the anecdote that you mentioned, too — a great way to make a new friend is to invite them over for dinner. Julia Turshen unites healthy and comfort in the kitchen: Delicious "does not have to be complicated" 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z He nerds-out just the right amount, moving briskly from hit to hit and craze to craze, slowing down only to impart a few choice anecdotes. Once upon a time, rock-and-roll was strange, wild and dangerous 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Winchester’s books live and die by their idiosyncrasies, anecdotes and writerly grace, not their overall structure or intellectual arguments, of which there are few. Review: ‘Pacific’ Is Simon Winchester’s Latest Big-Picture Book 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z The authority of the original essay is replaced by chat and anecdotes, a bit like Freakonomics but less flash. The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating a New Society by Alison Wolf – review 2013-04-26T08:30:01Z Estop, who worked with MacCormac for more than 20 years, said he "wore his intellect lightly, constantly perspicacious, but always ready with an anecdote or joke". Architect Sir Richard MacCormac dies 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The guests were abuzz with Wright anecdotes, exchanging stories and chuckling over his behavior as if he were some impossible genius with whom they were personally acquainted. Cultured Traveler: Touring Wright Buildings in Wisconsin 2011-11-02T16:40:35Z It’s a telling anecdote: Hawke is likely to yin while others yang. Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z I was brought up short by an anecdote he used Sunday on Salon to explain his rationale for not trusting godless people. Don’t trust the religious 2012-07-02T18:20:00Z This Filthy World combines career highlights, anecdotes, opinions and audience interaction. John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z But even these powerful stories, let alone the hundreds of others, get short shrift in Diane Paulus’s staging, as the actors quickly dissolve back into the ensemble and the anecdote parade passes on without follow-up. Review: ‘Gloria: A Life,’ Starring Ms. Steinem and Her Audience 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z That emotional absence explains more to me of the relationship between a man and his son than any anecdote my father tells. My aging parents smuggle medical marijuana 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z I only wish Ruth Scurr had found reason to include perhaps the most winsome anecdote from “Brief Lives.” Finally, a biography of the man who invented biography 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Plus, there’s that one fiery anecdote about a dozen bored university students and a handful of firecrackers. Firecrackers, a striptease scandal and more moments of change from the Hammer's 'Radical Women' 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Some of Strong’s most affecting anecdotes in “This Will All Be Over Soon” are suffused with the frustration and unfairness of loss. Cecily Strong Is Starting a New Conversation 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z He had a huge personality, and fortunately left behind him a rich fund of anecdotes about his foibles and small melodramas, which offer plenty of material for a writer to play with. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z The anecdote is shared by their daughter to explain the couple’s latest establishment: Mama Chang in Fairfax, “a celebration of women in the family,” says Lydia Chang, chief of business development. Peter Chang returns to Fairfax, with a new star powered by women 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z There's a good anecdote: On arrival, Sefton admitted he is constantly having to explain the difference between the Fringe and the Festival. Adelaide festival 2013: week two 2013-03-14T08:39:42Z But instead of the president’s name, we hear jokes and anecdotes and a moving, startlingly cheerful sermon at an elderly woman’s funeral. Review: ‘Monrovia, Indiana’ Is a Sharp, Lyrical Look at Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z “He had a legendary capacity for spontaneous humor and telling anecdotes,” said Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford who served as his law clerk. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The accident and their dazed persistence lead well into their routines, which are a mix of gallows humor and twisted, twisty anecdotes. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: Still Standing 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z A similar anecdote appears in Kenneth Anger’s dubious book “Hollywood Babylon.” ‘Babylon’: A Guide to the Characters and Their Real-Life Counterparts 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z “His book is a marvel of popular historical writing, propelled by anecdotes and just the right amount of explanation but also impressively well grounded in the latest academic research by historians, sociologists and others.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “We hadn’t quite come up with anything, any big moment or anecdote that offered the key to understanding how we operate.” Analysis | Ten things we learned from the new Valerie Biden Owens book 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Like many of Macdonald’s fictional anecdotes, this one transforms a believable framework into farce. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z He was insatiable when it came to hoovering up historical titbits and anecdotes, but his information is often unverifiable and sometimes plain wrong. Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z Fittingly, the anecdote involved the former celebrity hangout Elaine’s, on the Upper East Side, which he frequented religiously. Remembering a relentless publicist, never too proud to beg 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z The anecdote is among several that hint at personal, perhaps unconscious but fascinating religious and cultural reasons for the manager-client split, decades before the deaths of Cash, in 2003, and Holiff, two years later. Movie Review: ‘My Father and the Man in Black,’ on Johnny Cash’s Manager 2013-09-06T03:26:05Z There are no anecdotes about Susan Sontag’s taste in Beethoven recordings or Oliver Sacks’s entertaining quirks. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z In autobiographical songs and anecdotes that focus on his complicated relationship with his family, he tells a story of suffering, regret, despair and hope in a conversational tone with a playful touch. The one-man musical 'The Lion' leaps to the L.A. stage with songs of regret and hope 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z It was, as she described it, “more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel.” The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z There are the anecdotes from subjects, who talking about how dating apps make it easier to discriminate or fetishize others on the basis of size, race, or whatever you can imagine. Dangers of dating in the Tinder age: “If you called someone you’d probably get labeled a psyc... 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z It is, after all, just a collection of anecdotes about men she used to know. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z Even Boyles’s notes and appendices proffer additional anecdotes and useful bits of information. Review: ‘Everything Explained That Is Explainable’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The one-page items are sprinkled with lessons Carter gleaned from more than 30 years of teaching Sunday school classes and anecdotes from his country upbringing to his ascent to the White House and beyond. Jimmy Carter's latest book offers lessons in faith 2012-01-04T20:41:08Z The extent of whether they are performed in the U.S. is unclear, though Mishori said that physicians have shared anecdotes of patients and parents requesting such testing. Rapper T.I.’s remarks spark NY bill to end virginity tests 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Marshall was always known as a spectacular raconteur, and much of his story is delivered in the language of trenchant, powerful and often engagingly funny anecdote, a medium in which Mr. Fishburne thrives. | 'Thurgood': Marshall v. Bias: A Life Revealed in Anecdotes 2011-02-23T23:22:27Z Cue plenty of irreverent anecdotes and surreal junctures into the world of showbiz. Comedy profile: Bridget Christie 2010-03-26T15:32:00Z A varied succession of often hilarious anecdotes bathed in a golden glow. Woody Allen: 'My wife hasn't seen most of my films... and she thinks my clarinet playing is torture' 2011-03-13T00:05:42Z It's incongruous, as is the thought of the two of them dining together in a fancy restaurant, but the anecdote wasn't told for laughs. Radio review: The First Time 2011-02-28T08:00:01Z No anecdote gets longer than a page or two, and none ties smoothly to the rest. Joan Didion gets out of town in 'South and West' — and finds only fragments 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z He winced slightly, however, as a moment later she started recounting anecdotes about him as a toddler. Krisha Fairchild is a breakout star - at age 64 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z But Everett’s amiable tone, and especially his captivating anecdotes from his field studies in the Amazonian rain forests, will help the neophyte along. How Language Came to Be — and How We Use It Today 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The pleasure derives from anecdotes that have the savour of lived experience, albeit by a man with a zeal for the eccentric – although his protestations of truthfulness are unnecessary. Greg Davies ? review 2011-03-22T19:31:00Z Through brief essays composed of anecdotes, mini-histories and cultural criticism, Biss explores the contradictions of capitalism from within its clutch, meditating on the twisted individual experience of class and money in America. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z There's an anecdote, possibly apocryphal, about David Bowie strolling in drag through a Texas town in the 1970s when a policeman challenged him, "Hey — where're you going in that woman's dress?" Painter Stephen O'Donnell: in women's dress, but not a drag 2012-06-07T20:50:05Z In light of the artist's subsequent romance with the found photograph, this anecdote is almost too apt to be true. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z Mr. Harris begins on a personal note, with an anecdote about his father, depicted in old snapshots as a handsome man with a distinctly melancholy, distracted air. ‘Through a Lens Darkly,’ on African-American Photography 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z For all the anecdotes attesting to his substantial ego, he was also plagued by insecurity, something I got a glimpse of when I interviewed him in 1987 at Tanglewood. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z But no matter how moving or morally ambivalent these women are, Ms. Czubek seems content to hop from one anecdote to another, unwilling to shape her findings into a larger investigation or deeper analysis. Movie Review: ‘A Girl and a Gun,’ Cathryne Czubek’s Look at a Subculture 2013-07-04T21:24:16Z If you spoke to him about anything you were doing he would listen and come back with a piece of experience from his own life that came out like a beautiful anecdote. Fortune: Bremner and Sergeant tributes 2013-12-31T16:35:25Z By the time our sons were born, stories of history and customs, enlivened by personal anecdote and family lore, were already part of mealtime, prompted by whatever we were eating. Perspective | What raising multicultural sons has taught me about food and appropriation 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z After he and a neighboring doctor revive her, Bud tells his own story about a botched suicide attempt – an anecdote he’s spun generously for laughs. The Apartment at 60: is this Billy Wilder's finest film? 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Nowadays, major news articles often open with illustrative anecdotes, but then it was only the women’s department that gathered and ran them. Judith Martin: In defense of ‘women’s pages’ 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Which might be the salient point of this book beyond the anecdotes and the ruminations on digital and nonpictorial art that challenge our concepts of what art is. ‘The Contemporaries,’ by Roger White 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z There's little in the way of anecdote, and it looks like he's reading it off an autocue. Hoff's show is Hoff the wall 2012-08-22T08:29:16Z The anger she had repressed in her youth came out forcefully but smoothly, in anecdotes and epigrams, and was carefully modulated into irony or nostalgia. A Great Lady Makes Her Exit: Lena Horne Dies at 92 2010-05-10T19:10:00Z Despite the parallels to her own family’s experience, Rivero didn’t set out to write an autobiographical story, even though it was initially inspired by an anecdote from her mother. An Undocumented Woman Struggles to Root Her Family in New York City 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z For me, that anecdote captures the spirit of this series. Asian supermarkets offer a produce bonanza at prices that can’t be beat 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z Some anecdotes were nixed because they “wouldn’t be nice to somebody” if she shared them onstage. Carrie Fisher's 'Wishful Drinking,' created at the Geffen, was a feat of 'incredible strength' 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z The summary of Obama’s White House initiatives relies on promotional language and well-worn anecdotes, and the book’s final pages are just a shade away from an overt advertisement for the Obama Foundation. Michelle Obama’s New Reign of Soft Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Rose draws on psychology and neuroscience to show how narrative tools — character, anecdote, voice — help us understand the world. New & Noteworthy, From Finding Joy to Offbeat Sports Stories 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z But Notaro saw the illustrated approach as a tool to help viewers digest her personal, sometimes deliberately uncomfortable anecdotes. Tig Notaro’s ‘Drawn’ Explores Strange New Worlds: Animated Ones 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z That’s the joy and freedom this book seems to be after, and it comes through much more clearly in Garfein’s understated anecdote than in Winder’s hot air and specious detail. When Marilyn Took Manhattan 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Here are some of their insights and anecdotes regarding life after a signature role. 2010-01-09T04:30:00Z He lives on in anecdotes that sound apocryphal only if you haven’t spent time in Providence. Checking In With an Old Buddy (Cianci That Is) 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Often described as a storyteller as much as an artist, his work is packed with narrative prequels and subplots spun from cultural history and personal anecdotes. Artist of the week 89: Ryan Gander 2010-05-26T14:35:00Z Though Turner frames the anecdote as humorous rather than abusive, it indicates a casual lack of regard for female actors around shooting sex scenes. Sexual misconduct in film and TV: how intimacy coordination can help to address the historic issue 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z The anecdote speaks volumes: For all his success, Murs still craves the respect of his peers. Olly Murs: 'Look who's winning now' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Elsewhere in the show, Mr. Lewis laughed at himself for losing his place in the middle of an anecdote he said was about an elderly uncle and his strategies for maintaining mental acuity. Jerry Lewis Holds Sway at the Friars Club 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z By now, he is weeping: From this point on, anecdote shifts into tragedy, both individual and political, as the old Indian sets the dead bird aside and begins shooting at the nearest windmill. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z The juicy anecdotes keep the book spicy, but the sheer number of people crammed into the pages prevents any character from ever becoming fully developed. What Is the Status of Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Wall’? 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In “Beware” Grendel’s lair is a wood-paneled living room furnished with a leather recliner from which Mr. Baker, plagued by osteoarthritis, retails anecdotes and pulls on a morphine inhaler. A Documentary Looks at the Drummer Ginger Baker 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z But a simple anecdote about Starbucks and Twitter got Ms. Chenoweth awfully excited on Tuesday’s “Late Show With David Letterman,” in a segment we’re still waiting to see analyzed on All That Chat. Percolation Nation: Two Stars Who Don't Need More Coffee 2010-07-14T13:16:00Z Nicolson's delicious pudding of a book mixes history, anecdote and agriculture with sharp sketches of the people he meets along the way. Adam Nicolson: The Constant Gardener 2010-05-20T11:30:00Z To avoid dryness, he will tell lively anecdotes about the artist’s romantic life, financial struggles or initial failure to win over critics. The Greatest Composers Ever 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In Veterans Day comments made Thursday, Biden told an anecdote that referenced baseball player Satchel Paige, who had pitched in the Negro Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Fox News edit of Biden comment removes racial context 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z He was a gracious host, disarming the pomp with cozy anecdotes about the songs, and singling out soloists by name. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z “I was interested in trying to restore these people’s identities, not just as anecdotes in Wyeth’s life,” Mr. Padon said. All the Andrew Wyeth No One Has Seen 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Contributors made their points with lively phrases and fresh, memorable anecdotes. Radio Review: The Queen of Soul: the Legend of Aretha 2011-08-01T22:00:01Z Mr. Miller pointed to several anecdotes in “And Furthermore” to back up his point, including one that recounts the time Ms. Dench wrote a letter to the theater critic of The Daily Telegraph. Taking Her Art Seriously, Not Herself 2011-02-14T20:07:15Z |
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