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"Sinatra Has A Cold"
http://www.sinatraarchive.com/tis/cold1.html
Yeah, I know this is a pretty random thing to post & I really don't know why I'm starting a thread on it ... but it's such a damned good read nearly 40 years after it was first published that I figured I ought to. If you've never read it, go do so now. If you haven't read it in a long while, read it again & be reminded how good it is. If you've read in many times, or read it recently, feel free to indulge in the almost inevitable discussion about "The New Journalism" or whatever floats your boat. I'm just glad I read it tonight, most fun I've had reading anything in quite a while.
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10-19-2005, 12:06 AM | #2 |
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Man, what a piece. Wonderful writing.
Thanks for posting it. |
10-19-2005, 12:17 PM | #3 |
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that was boring
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heh, I was about to write: Too.Damn.Long.
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10-19-2005, 12:23 PM | #6 |
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That article is so Gay.
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10-19-2005, 12:29 PM | #7 |
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As Roger Ebert says, no good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short.
I hear the complaint about length all of the time from my students, and almost invariably it translates to problems with their own attention spans rather than something intrinsic to the work. I wish Quik would address this as well, because Aristotle wrote about this: a work needs a certain magnitude to be great, and he meant length as well as subject. |
10-19-2005, 12:31 PM | #8 |
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dola...
I mean, hell, anything that Jon would post that would get me not only agreeing with him but thanking him has to be pretty effing miraculous, no? |
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Halfway through...very enjoyable article. Had to stop to highlight a line that jumped out at me:
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Something that was nothing out of the ordinary for 1966, but seems quite out of place by today's standards.
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