Thursday, March 31, 2011

Opening Day memory.

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Baseball season opens today. A couple weeks too early if you're a traditionalist as I am and, this season anyway, the weather agrees wit...
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Gloomy Thursday.

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ME: We had a good meeting. SHE: Great! What's next? ME: Another meeting.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Accenture's year-long review.

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Accenture has been looking for a new agency now--an official search, for more than a year. One of the smartest guys I ever worked with was a...
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George Tooker, 1920-2011.

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I go to art museums with some regularity, but I'll be the first to admit I had never heard of George Tooker, whose obituary ran in yeste...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Something I miss.

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I always, since I started in advertising, did a lot of print. In fact, if I didn't worry about making money and moving up within agencie...
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The Einstellung effect,

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I read an article in "The New York Times" this morning that mentioned something called the Einstellung effect. This is basically o...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

The woman loved fish sticks.

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I don’t think you can imagine the pressure if you weren’t there, if you didn’t live through it. If you weren’t—pardon the excess—present at ...
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Most of what is wrong with the world in one quotation.

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I was just now flipping through the digital edition of "The New Yorker" when I ran across an ad for James Gleick's new book, ...
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Living off your hump.

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I was watching, studying actually, Alec Guinness in the early 1980s mini-series, "Smiley's People." It hardly matters that the...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

While I was on the West Side.

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Of course I stopped into Zabar's, perhaps the greatest delicatessen, food and housewares emporium in the world. I've been stopping i...
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