To characterize the great man's speaking style, collectors of Apple stories often use the phrase "holding forth," although he is also, truth be told, someone who takes in just about everything everyone else in the conversation says and files it away in what Morley Safer, of CBS, who has been a friend of Apple's since they were in Vietnam together, calls "that Palm Pilot of a brain he has".
A childhood friend of Manning's, speaking about a conversation they had when Manning was 13, said "he told me he was gay".
"That's the man who's speaking today," said a woman waiting in line for the graduation ceremony of Democracy Prep Charter High School.
A 73-year-old Polish woman from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, picked up the phone in late November and heard a young man's voice speaking in Polish: "Hey, auntie, it's me".
O'Connor tellingly preferred to call his audience "listeners" rather than "readers", and believed passionately that the story should ring "with the tone of a man's voice, speaking".
"All my friends want to be the first ones to see a new Western movie," said one of the tape man's customers, speaking on condition of anonymity.
To get a more in-depth look at the man, we analyzed Belichick's speaking patterns from the transcripts of his postgame press conferences this season and, for purposes of comparison, gave the same treatment to the more media-friendly Tom Brady.
He is a trim, handsome, professorial man in his late 50's, speaking English with the soft accent of southern Germany.
According to the paper, the man's mother spoke of her son's "girl friend called Elizabeth living in SW1".
The working man's hero speaks!
Danis Tanovic, Oscar winning filmmaker of No Man's Land, spoke to our students about war, humor, and storytelling.
