What we get on television is not a headline service but a tabloid service. It takes that old format to its logical extreme, since ...manifestly television is all pictures, for which anchormen and reporters merely provide captions. Some stories, alas, cannot be illustrated. Usually they are the complicated and boring ones--about the economy or foreign policy, let us say. The inherent demand of the medium is to get through this stuff as quickly and painlessly as possible, cut from the talking heads to the crying heads (disaster victims, let us say, or political loonies), or better still, running feet or rapidly moving vehicles--explosions, riots. Like the tabloid journalists before them, the television crew is always on the alert for an emblematic figure and will thrust a moment of fame on anyone who is eyewitness to a disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. It's the one characteristic all runners, as different as they are, se...em to share.... Stick with it. Push yourself. Keep running. And you'll never lose that wonderful sense of individuality you now enjoy. Right, comrade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able... to take the damn thing off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When, like a running grave, time tracks you down, Your calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,... Love in her gear is slowly through the house, Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse, Hauled to the dome....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poor men have grown to be rich men, And rich men grown to be poor again,... And I am running to Paradise; And many a darling wit's grown dull That tossed a bare heel when at school, Now it has filled an old sock full....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The wind is old and still at play While I must hurry upon my way,... For I am running to Paradise; Yet never have I lit on a friend To take my fancy like the wind That nobody can buy or bind....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed inn...ocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for ...the measure you give will be the measure you get back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »