A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. |
A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. |
ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as of 12/20/86. |
Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility. |
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. |
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. |
He that requires a benefit pays a great deal |
He's the best, isn't he? |
I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines. |
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. |
Media, the plural of mediocrity. |
Men in the uniform of Wall Street retirement: black Chesterfield coat, rimless glasses and the Times folded to the obituary page. |
Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows. |
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there. |
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. |