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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 12, 2017, 02:12:46 pm ---Also, when the NYT asked, "If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be?" he said:
I’d recommend that 18th-century classic on political strategy by the Count deRinchy, called “A Tim’ly Resignation Doth Suit a Gentleman Well.” There is also his lesser-known classic, “Labor Thee Always to Not Insult or Afright Those Thou Wouldst Leadeth.” DeRinchy also was a poet of some repute, and his little volume “The Truth Remains True, Even Amongst a Sea of Deliberate Falsehoods” is a timeless classic.
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I saw that -- funny!
You know, I always thought if I were ever interviewed for one of those things, I'd spend the week before desperately doing research so that when they ask things like, "What's a good book you recently read?" I could answer with some obscure 18th century novel and look all erudite instead of, "Um, 'Gone Girl,' I guess."
Looks like George went one better and skipped the week of desperate research! :laugh: :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
I was not going to read the profile of photographer Catherine Opie in the March 13 issue, because, I'll be perfectly honest about this, I was put off by the photo of the subject nursing her child. However, the article was written by Ariel Levy, and I always read her articles, so I read the Opie profile, and I'll admit that I'm glad I did because she seems like an interesting person with an interesting personal history. Also, the things Opie had to say about S/M resonated with my own personal history.
serious crayons:
I was skimming a duty article by a journalist ebedded with a SWAT team outside Mosul and I spotted another New Yorker typographic idiosyncrasy that I think I'd subconsciously noticed before but never quite registered.
When writing all-caps acronyms like SWAT and ISIS and AWOL, they put it in a weird little font that's the size of the small letters of the regular type. For example, in SWAT team, SWAT is shorter than the "t" but the same height as the "eam." Soemthing like SWAT team. (That's actually a little too small -- I think in this example the "SWAT" would probably be 9 pt. to "teams"'s 10, and we can only choose either 8 or 10. But you get the idea.)
What's up with that? I don't think any other publication does that. I would make you want to seek a beat that never required you to report on ISIS or any other topics with frequent acronyms.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 26, 2017, 10:09:27 am ---I was skimming a duty article by a journalist ebedded with a SWAT team outside Mosul and I spotted another New Yorker typographic idiosyncrasy that I think I'd subconsciously noticed before but never quite registered.
When writing all-caps acronyms like SWAT and ISIS and AWOL, they put it in a weird little font that's the size of the small letters of the regular type. For example, in SWAT team, SWAT is shorter than the "t" but the same height as the "eam." Soemthing like SWAT team. (That's actually a little too small -- I think in this example the "SWAT" would probably be 9 pt. to "teams"'s 10, and we can only choose either 8 or 10. But you get the idea.)
What's up with that? I don't think any other publication does that. I would make you want to seek a beat that never required you to report on ISIS or any other topics with frequent acronyms.
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I read that article, and I never really noticed or thought about that before. Are they just using small caps?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 26, 2017, 03:28:40 pm ---Are they just using small caps?
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If you're asking in a literal rather than oxymoronic sense, then yes. They are using all caps but in a smaller font than the surrounding type.
And I've since approached a part of the article that suggests it -- the article's content, not the caps issue -- becomes more dramatic and less dutiful as it goes along.
Also, I should add that I could never be an embedded war correspondent for the New Yorker, weird acronyms or no, or for any other publication.
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