As a devotee of Chris Matthews, I’d point out a couple new trends on Hardball. A, he’s been using profanity, saying “damn” a lot and “bastards,” usually about our failed foreign policy; and B, he’s trying to give the neocons their comeuppance, but isn’t able to. The trends merged last week when he said to Read More
Many a complacent D.C. wag insists that politics is all about numbers—as in who turns out when, presenting what margin of victory to produce which sort of mandate to govern. In a twist, New York Times columnist Frank Rich confronts one talismanic number of the Bush years—9/11—with another: 24/7. In Mr. Rich’s anatomy of the Read More
Many a complacent D.C. wag insists that politics is all about numbers—as in who turns out when, presenting what margin of victory to produce which sort of mandate to govern. In a twist, New York Times columnist Frank Rich confronts one talismanic number of the Bush years—9/11—with another: 24/7. In Mr. Rich’s anatomy of the Read More
The hour is growing late, politicians and public officials are sleepwalking toward disaster, so forgive me if I take up, once again, my lonely crusade against the tragic folly of the so-called “Freedom Tower.”
I was prompted to return to the question by a moment that dramatized the absurdity of the reassurances we have been Read More
According to the Oprah Winfrey Show Web site, tomorrow’s program will revisit the questions surrounding James Frey and A Million Little Pieces.
A source at Doubleday said that Frey, publisher Nan Talese and Frank Rich will be appearing on the show, which is being taped tomorrow morning for airing at 4 p.m. Read More
Let us begin this week with two recent items from the news. First there was NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, asking New York Times reporter-of-the-moment James Risen whether he had any information about the Bush administration eavesdropping on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. In the journalism trade, this is known as “fishing.” Or, somewhat less charitably, “trying to get Read More
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From: XXXXX@nytimes.com
Subject: News from Culture
TO THE STAFF:
Jodi Kantor came to The Times in early 2003 with a mandate to
remake the Arts & Leisure section. Now, having accomplished this
task with great skill, spirit and aplomb, and having helped in the
process to remake the Read More
“I am someone who’s always changed my career a lot,” Frank Rich said. It was a substantial understatement-yet, in its own way, an overstatement too. Mr. Rich was on the phone from the New York Times Building, discussing his latest reassignment: At the end of this month, Mr. Rich will go from writing a showpiece Read More
And so, to the moment the nation has been waiting for! Before announcing the winners of our 2004 Theater Awards, here is Mrs. Kockenlocker, the beloved matriarch of our distinguished firm of accountants, Kockenlocker, Kockenlocker and Kockenlocker, to explain the rules.
“Good evening, everybody. Here are the rules as set out in subsection 2(b), paragraph Read More
The Times’ li’l culture czarina; what an audition! what mentors! but where are pieces on Eugene O’Neill?
A year ago, there was a consensus inside and outside The New York Times that Sunday Arts and Leisure was in a major funk-the section was a bore, digestive rather than energetic, let alone contentious. A search Read More
