Brendan Gill
Brendan Gill
Brendan Gillwrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 October 1914
CountryUnited States of America
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Parody is homage gone sour.
execute hopefully knew needed offense waiting
Our offense really needed that. We've been waiting for that all season. We knew how to do it, we just had to execute and at least for one inning (Thursday), we did that. Hopefully we can keep it going.
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The Federal Highway Administration should essentially recognize that later-year funding in the program will be subject to state legislative action, and that happens in many states,
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It is not uncommon for contracts like this to run later than expected. We're just not at that stage yet to proceed.
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It depends on what they find. Basically, they're replacing lighting devices, doing some troubleshooting and eliminating any trouble with the current lighting.
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If the state were to suspend the gas tax, it would most likely result in the state being sued by the bondholders,
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, the unexamined past is not worth possessing; it bears fruit only by being held continuously up to the light, and is as changeable and as full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, as the future
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What exactly happened? How did our practices work? Could we have done more?
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We don't think there's any problem from an engineering perspective or a structural perspective. The bridge is safe.
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We're going to address the problem. If you want to characterize that as a shift in the position of the department, that would be fair.
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We're going to take a closer look at how notification needs to occur.
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.