[HN Gopher] Pearls Before Breakfast: Can a great musician cut fo...
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Pearls Before Breakfast: Can a great musician cut fog of rush hour?
(2007)
Author : wglb
Score : 26 points
Date : 2024-04-29 00:27 UTC (22 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.washingtonpost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.washingtonpost.com)
| wglb wrote:
| Then a follow up article:
| https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style/wp/2014/10/14/gene....
|
| The story is exceedingly well written.
| wnissen wrote:
| And a follow-follow-up: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
| dyn/content/article/2008/0...
|
| Unfortunately for Weingarten, the only living two time Pulitzer
| winner for feature writing leaned into his ignorance about
| Indian food and managed to get himself invited to retire from
| the Post.
| lupire wrote:
| After 10 years of only writing his opinion/humor column, not
| features, his contract was not renewed in 2021 in the wake of
| the curry controversy. His feature writing was long done by
| then.
| akuchling wrote:
| He wrote "A Dog's Life"
| (https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/11/08/why-
| are-s...), a feature in the Post's magazine, in November
| 2021. (A heartbreaking story, if you're a dog person.)
| RankingMember wrote:
| tldr on the haul: "the final haul for his 43 minutes of playing
| was $32.17. Yes, some people gave pennies."
| pimlottc wrote:
| I couldn't figure out what the title meant until I saw it had
| been altered from the original:
|
| > Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation's great
| musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find
| out.
|
| "Cut through the fog" is a known expression, while "cut fog" is
| not.
| dnissley wrote:
| Headlines in newspapers used to be compressed in this manner,
| where they would omit words (especially "the"), so it didn't
| phase me, but interesting to think how this could be confusing,
| especially to those who didn't grow up reading physical
| newspapers, but even for those who are just used to the less
| constrained headlines in today's media.
| pimlottc wrote:
| Yes, I'm aware of newspaperese but you have to do it
| carefully to avoid butchering phrases like this.
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| sorry, pet peeve word mixup: it didn't "faze" you
| wglb wrote:
| HN has a short title requirement and it is not always easy to
| preserve the full meaning.
| iancmceachern wrote:
| I'm going to take that term, Cut Fog, and use it for my own
| purposes from now on. I'm cutting fog right now as a matter of
| fact.
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