Today is the first of my introductions in the new Kermode Uncut Film Club.
It was so inappropriate and what the heck was a casting director doing with a condom in his pocket in an audition?" she said, adding: "That was one of my introductions to how the acting system works". .
This was a huge time-saver and often proved far more helpful than the other approaches: some people landed jobs, and one of my introductions accidentally resulted in a marriage.
The move makes sense, but it's bittersweet to see such a pivotal part of my introduction to life on the Internet disappear.
This anecdote formed part of my introduction to New York winter bird-watching, a pastime as warmly rewarding (despite such potential predatory dramas) as the atmosphere is cold.
Readers of my introduction alone will note that, in it, I compare philosophy in the United States to its role in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Norway, Hungary, Russia, the Czech Republic, the Soviet Union, Albania, Turkey, Israel, Peru, Cuba and Venezuela.
The memories it conjures are vivid, especially when the seaside weather is nasty, and it takes me back to the dim origins of my introduction to the sport.
"It's probably only because of the personal nature of my introduction, and that I speak Spanish, that I eventually won their trust".
The text of my Introduction to the first plenary session of the G8-UNESCO World Forum on "Education, Research, and Innovation" at Trieste/Italy on May 10 , 2007
The bright red spheres, part of a work called "Double Dribble" by the Swedish artist Anne Thulin, were part of my introduction to the 1.5-square-mile sculpture park Wanas in southern Sweden.
WITHIN a day of my introduction to Berliner weisse, I was whizzing across Germany toward Cologne via the high-speed Deutsche Bahn, the German rail system, traveling faster than many of the cars on the autobahn outside.
