One Great Moment

“Are you writing this down?”

July 26, 2023

An 11-year-old in Wichita, Kansas, challenging a journalist

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“… it’s not terribly unusual to see grown men crying …”

June 2, 2023

Cynthia Barnes of Denver Westword in her obit of a local bartender

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“…just how astonishing this particular moment really is.”

March 31, 2023

Peter Baker of The New York Times on the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump

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Divining the “fantastical sea creatures” on the political horizon

March 23, 2023

New York Times chief political analyst Nate Cohn on the possibilities of indictments against Donald J. Trump

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“…cutting the viewer to the bone.”

March 7, 2023

Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz on actor Tom Sizemore

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One Great Moment

“… how the persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well.”

February 1, 2023

From the novel "Room" buy Emma Donoghue, which is written entirely in the voice and perspective of a 5-year-old boy

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“Sleep will not come for her…”

January 12, 2023

From the novel "The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O'Farrell

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” … a slab of muscle with Olympic speed.”

November 11, 2022

Tommy Tomlinson on Herschel Walker in his football prime

One Great Moment

“…Baldwin when you’re stuck. …Coltrane when you’re not.”

October 19, 2022

President Barack Obama's advice to speechwriter Cody Keenan

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“… the Jenga tower simply will not collapse.”

June 30, 2022

From the dissenting opinion to the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding Dobbs v. Jackson

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“… anything can happen in a war.”

March 16, 2022

From the 1961 movie "The Guns of Navarone"