Category: people

“An Istanbul court found Fazil Say guilty over a series of posts on the social networking site Twitter. Say was not in court for the sentencing. But he denied the charges, saying they were politically motivated.”

“She left her job as an X-ray technician to teach dancing at the local Y.M.H.A. and became a hit at rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. She taught “Dancing Under the Stars” on the boardwalk for years.”

Deborah Voigt: “I’m constantly needing to brush up on things, learn new repertory. I’m also in the process of trying to put together a cabaret act, so I’m being sent music to look at for that.”

The Canadian pop star’s note in the guest book: “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.”

“Music lovers across the world have been inspired by his performances and recordings. His musicianship and his humanity have been cherished by musicians and audiences alike.”

“Part of the whole thing about this production, I am aware, is the chutzpah of it, and maybe the stupidity of it,” said Cumming. “The feat of it is why people are attracted to the show. Like, you know, maybe the car will crash?

“Mr. Winters was at his best when winging it, confounding television hosts and luckless straight men with his rapid-fire delivery of bizarre observations uttered by characters like Elwood P. Suggins, a Midwestern Everyman.”

“She burned quite a few of her letters, and in her will she forbade publication of any that remained” – including excerpts or even quotes. “Presumably, she issued the no-quotes rule in order to protect to herself – her privacy, her reputation. Little did she know.”

“To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, leveled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas – wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now … I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle.”

“A onetime apprentice at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West compound, … [Soleri] created a visionary prototype for a new kind of ecologically sensitive city in the remote Arizona desert four decades ago, only to watch the suburban sprawl he detested begin to creep near it in recent years.”