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{author:"Tina Brown",text:"In June, Diana took Lalvani dancing at Annabel's, the Berkeley Square nightclub, in the hopes of making Hasnat jealous. She did not understand that it was just this kind of exposure that her medical heartthrob most derided and dreaded. If she had understood that, it might have been the man she really loved on a sundeck with her, not his ersatz replacement. The deluge of trashy images from the Jonikal must have filled the earnest Khan less with regret than with relief that he was not a part of the madness. It was the prospect of just such career-trivializing photo ops that had made him so wary of becoming formally attached to her.", bio:"Tina Brown was the Editor-in-Chief of <i>Vanity Fair</i> and the Editor of <i>The New Yorker</i>. Her biography of Princess Diana was a Number One New York Times bestseller in 2007. Brown obviously understands words, and WordRake found only occasional sentences to improve; but even an editor and writer as accomplished as Brown can use WordRake to back up her creative process."},
{author:"William Goldman",text:"We can be sure that the author of every great screenplay imagined the activity of the actors as well as their dialogue, envisioning where, as well as when, they would be making their entrances and exits, what the effect of settings, costumes and music would be, the subtle changes of rhythm and pace that would be most effective.\n\nIt is a good idea to remember that the characters don't know who the protagonist is, who the antagonist is, and who the supporting players are.\n\nThat is, in order to advance toward his goal, he must commit himself; and any commitment, that is, any progression from a state of perfect balance, must create, in him, a vulnerability.",bio:"William Goldman won two Academy Awards for <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i>, and <i>All the President’s Men</i>. He also has written books on Hollywood and the screenwriting trade, including <i>Which Lie Did I Tell</i>?, where we find the following:."},
{author:"Jack London",text:"Surely there can be little in this world more awful than the spectacle of a strong man in the moment when he is utterly weak and broken.\n\nBut it was not till the third day that we found them, all of them, the shears included.\n\nThere was only one galley knife that, as a knife, amounted to anything.\n\nIn point of fact, the chief vent to this primal melancholy has been religion in its more agonizing forms.",bio:"Jack London wrote the classics <i>White Fang</I>, <i>The Call of the Wild</i>, and <i>The Sea-Wolf</i>, from which these sentences are taken:"},
{author:"Ann Patchett",text:"They were watching their wives file out into the bright afternoon, knowing that it was a probability that they would never see them again.\n\nThe line had stopped moving, even the women who were free to go now stopped to watch her, regardless of whether or not they had any idea of what she was saying. It was in this moment of uncertainty, the inevitable pause that comes before the translation, that Roxane Coss saw the moment of her exit. \n\nThe terrorists, having no chance to get what they came for, decided to take something else instead, something that they never in their lives knew that they wanted until they crouched in the low, dark shaft of the air conditioning vents: opera. ",bio:"Ann Patchett is the author of <i>Bel Canto</i>, which won the Pen/Faulkner award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award."}
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