In telling his tales, Weiss seems to create his own personal event horizon, a charming screen of words and anecdotes behind which he conceals his deeper self.
At times, it feels like he could have used a good editor; in his no-anecdote-left-behind style, we hear seemingly everything.
CommLaw Conspectus of The Catholic University of America noted, "Cyber Rights brims with anecdotes and behind-the-scenes looks at the people and organizations struggling with the [reality] and potential of the information superhighway".
Concentered all in self, the reluctantly departing president failed to impart a single behind-the-scenes anecdote to dramatize the leadership qualities of his loyal sidekick, Al Gore.
Every track he chooses comes complete with strummed guitar chords and a behind-the-scenes anecdote, delivered in the semi-hoarse tones of a man who has seen it all and probably smoked it too.
His fund of behind-the-lines anecdote was precisely weighed and briskly told: of X, who crossed the Pyrenees on crutches; of Y, who ate plastic explosive in the dark, mistaking it for chocolate; of Z, whose fiddlings with a Morse key were unfortunately overheard by a German corporal in the next cell.
But could this anecdote be the explanation behind the photo shoot?
Hinduism can be playful and mischievous and Americans often enjoy the romantic anecdote about the colors behind Holi.
Recently, my colleagues at Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Centerr (IVAC), Kyla Hayford and Lois Privor-Dumm, and I joined together with a team of experts at McKinsey & Co to try to put some evidence behind the anecdote.
Delivered with White's trademark wit and candor, this deliciously entertaining book is packed with wonderful anecdotes and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at television's golden era.
