Short Takes
January 31, 2013
Doesn’t that music seem… familiar?
Great visuals. Attention-getting music. But whose?
The Lumineers.
January 26, 2013
Who’d a thunk it? A Nora Ephron story you haven’t heard
from Susan Braudy:
Nora and I were part of a small group of women writing for the Times Magazine who in the spirit of the late 1970′s gathered to petition the Times editors to hire more female freelancers.
We met for one strategy session at Nora and her then husband Dan Greenberg’s posh east side duplex.
As we were sorting out our coats piled on the marital bed, somebody asked, “Is that a gun under there?”
Nora pulled out a shotgun and said casually, “It’s not loaded.”
To demonstrate that fact she pulled the trigger, narrowly missing fellow writer Martha Lear.
Martha grabbed my arm and whispered, “Just walk me out of here, fast.”
I held her up, and we hit the sidewalk running.
January 25, 2013
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January 9, 2013
Life imitates Art
Charles Pierce, in Esquire, about Bradley Manning: "We are to believe through this ruling that Manning was treated more rigorously than was necessary and that his treatment was more excessive than legitimate government interests demanded, but that nobody in authority ordered it, nobody in authority countenanced it, and that nobody in authority will be called to account for it. It just happened, like a power outage, or a problem with the plumbing and, if there was somebody ordering it, or countenancing it, or in authority over it, it was all for Manning’s good, anyway. Both things cannot be true. If Manning’s treatment was more rigorous than was necessary and that it exceeded what was required to meet legitimate government interests, then it cannot have been done for Manning’s benefit, and somebody ordered the excesses and somebody countenanced them and somebody carried them out."