Robert Gottlieb
Robert Gottlieb
Robert Adams Gottliebis an American writer and editor. From 1987 to 1992 he was the editor of The New Yorker...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 April 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.
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You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.
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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
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The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
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How the English love playing at being naughty boys!
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Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.
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When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway.
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Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
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Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.
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Diana Vishneva is not only a magnificent dancer but a magnificent actress - no one works harder or understands more.
Remember: TV is a format, film is a format, and books are a format.
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We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.
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The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.
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It was a basic story -- three or four or five girls start off together, one finds love, one goes crazy and/or dies, and one of them becomes a huge success -- but Rona's take was very up-to-date. What made it work for the time was that it had a fresh young-career-women-in-New York quality with a fillip of shock.