Yet columns unsupported by reporting tend to lack vitality and authority.The value of memory—and dust on the shoesBy contrast, a well-turned column from the spot has a quality all its own, especially when the author can bring a lifetime of personal experience to his aid.
"What they have to do is unlock those memories gathering dust in people's attics, the pre-digital photographs and home movies that people haven't got around to putting online.
I see Mum gazing at my books, my house is stuffed full of them - from mum, from my grandmother - a nine foot tall bookshelf teeters in a hallway, dredged in memories and dust (and happily too high to reach it's summit to do any cleaning).
Somewhere in his memory, in his Dust Bowl past in Kansas on a Saturday morning in 1936, the whole town of Dodge City came out to see the cast of "Dodge City," chugging in on the Warner Bros. express train.
Perhaps it is the ghost of her past, humanity's past, coming to confront the audience, to console it, admonish it and then vanish into the recesses of memory and the dust of time.
Swiss Institute Nothingness just about edges out being in "Dust Memories," a beautiful if at times nearly invisible show at the Swiss Institute in SoHo.
Yet after a few weeks of use, most frames collect more dust than memories.
He – Watson – has done his grieving and has left 221b Baker Street to gather dust and memories.
Elsewhere in exhibition testimony, Fiona Taylor has vivid memories of the contaminated dust created by the clean-up.
The World Trade Center, the skyline's most distinctive feature, is a mixture of dust and memories.
