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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on May 15, 2025, 03:43:02 pm ---Sure enough. I get the reference, but that isn't necessarily what 91 looks like. My father was a month short of 94 when he died, and he had "a lot more meat on his bones" than she does. You frequently see film on news reports of birthday celebrations for people who have reached or even passed 100, and they look healthier than she does. She looks like a stick figure.
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I guess. Years ago, I did a package of profiles of centenarians. They ranged from a woman who sat silently at the table while I talked to her family members but could not hear, see, or get around on her own ... to a man who walked to the senior center and back every day and trimmed the trees in his yard with a long pole tree trimmer. Another woman told me about her experiences in the 1918 flu that killed her boss and a lot of other people she knew.
Jeff Wrangler:
In an article in the May 5 issue I came across a phrase I absolutely love: "effortlessly well-dressed." :D
Jeff Wrangler:
I presume by now we've all read Anthony Lane's article on memoirs of TNY in the May 12 &19 issue. If you haven't read it, you should, because it's absolutely delightful.
I've grumbled enough about the magazine's way with capitalizing, or not capitalizing, the first word of a direct quotation, but the magazine's idiosyncratic way of not italicizing book titles kind of annoys me, too. That was one thing I was taught you were supposed to italicize.
serious crayons:
I can't remember what TNY does, but AP Style calls for quotation marks, not italics.
Of course, TNY ignores AP on a million other things, like the diaresis (and don't they still spell out large numbers, whereas AP says use numerals for everything from 10 on up?).
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on May 24, 2025, 12:52:47 pm ---I can't remember what TNY does, but AP Style calls for quotation marks, not italics.
Of course, TNY ignores AP on a million other things, like the diaresis (and don't they still spell out large numbers, whereas AP says use numerals for everything from 10 on up?).
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I believe they do. I seem to remember seeing some examples in articles I recently read.
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