Ari Gerstman Alexandria, Va., Nov. 25, 2009 To the Editor: In a commentary filled with statistics, there is one critical measure that Phillip B. Levine did not mention: one in three American women will have an abortion in her lifetime.
Commercials and political commentary filled with raised voices, angry voices, cynical voices and acidic voices.
A flurry of commentary ensued, filling the strange political vacuum that that has characterized this summer in Moscow.
More of Mr. Dysart's experiences in Uganda can be found at his Web site, joshuadysart.com, which includes photos from his trip, links to news reports about Uganda and commentary to fill in the gaps for fans of the comic.
Two weeks of trying to watch first the Republican and then the Democratic national conventions by flipping back and forth between cable and broadcast channels and surfing the Web have shown how the widely lamented absence of news at the conventions has often led news organizations to a near-crippling dependency on commentary to fill the dead air.
He then added, a shade less temperately, "Oh, it is worth while to plant and tend and garner!" Many such effusions, and much practical commentary too, fill the pages of THE ONCE AND FUTURE GARDENER: Garden Writing From the Golden Age of Magazines, 1900-1940 (David R. Godine, $40), edited by Virginia Tuttle Clayton.
Most of the pundit commentary that fills up airtime in the 24 hour news cycle is, politically speaking, mostly inconsequential.
If possible, add some commentary to fill in the audience of the event.
Throughout his career, Nas has continued to change the game with his sharp wit and tough social commentary on albums filled with carefully crafted, provocative political thought and street wisdom.
One such centre was the Abbey of Saint-Victor at Paris, where Hugh (died 1141) compiled biblical commentaries that fill three volumes of Jacques-Paul Migne's (1800 75) Patrologiae Cursus Completus (Series Latina) and indicate the commentator's dependence on Rashi as well as on his Christian predecessors.
FROM Al Gore's earth-tone suits to Katherine Harris's makeup to George W. Bush's post-election boil, the 2000 presidential race was filled with commentary on how the players looked.
