We will be closely monitoring story lengths across state and national lines to make sure we are all living up to this commitment". He believes readers lack the attention span for long stories and that too much valuable time is being wasted by editors needing to cut lengthy copy.
Has the art world finally moved beyond how it was described in Tom Wolfe's 1975 "The Painted Word?" Occasionally, I will see an incomprehensible work or two in MoMA or Chicago's Renaissance Society accompanied by a lengthy copy block telling me what it is I am seeing, but it isn't as frequent as before.
Zwart believed the fast pace of 20th-century life meant viewers had little time for lengthy advertising copy.
An example of this can be seen in his dynamic advertisement for NKF cable factory (1924), which proclaims, "Normaal cable is the best cable for the price". Zwart believed the fast pace of 20th-century life meant viewers had little time for lengthy advertising copy.
And forcing them to copy lengthy passages, write reports that are judged on the basis of length, or complete dozens of repetitive arithmetic problems wastes their time.
As BuzzFeed pointed out, the first tweet he sent out as part of that lengthy mea culpa... Copying isn't particularly creative work.
How could the kind prophet whose lengthy passages I'd copied into my teenage diary be a selfish, sycophantic, womanizing rat? "One unexpected development of becoming a writer is meeting literary heroes," Justin Torres, author of "We the Animals," told me.
Gray, who is due to retire from parliament at this year's election, held up copies of lengthy "unwieldy and massive" Senate ballot papers from Queensland and Victoria to illustrate his point about the complexity of the current system.
Eager volunteers visiting her lab may be asked to carry out less-than-thrilling chores like copying out lengthy lists of telephone numbers.
At the hearing Monday, the state prosecution released a copy of its lengthy indictment of Mr. Pistorius, outlining its case that he intentionally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, while she was behind a locked bathroom door on the morning of Feb. 14.
The letter appeared the same day a van pulled up at 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister David Cameron's personal copy of the lengthy report, which has emerged from nine months of hearings conducted by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson after the hacking scandal that focused primarily on Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper subsidiary.
