MY TRIP TO AL-QAEDA Lawrence Wright, a staff writer for this magazine, performs a theatrical companion piece to his book "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," elaborating on his reporting adventures in the Middle East and on his disillusionment with the America that emerged following the attacks of September 11 , 2001
I recently had an e-mail exchange with Eilperin* about the book and her reporting adventures.
For the most part, though, Mr. Smith's reporting adventures have centered on the actions of others.
Marion's private life had the ingredients for a Hollywood bio-pic -- with her overseas reporting adventures and her loving but tragically curtailed marriage to Fred Thomson, who trained to be a Presbyterian minister but became one of his era's most famous Hollywood cowboys, and died at 38.
She has excitedly reported on her adventures to the folks back home, in phone calls to Ralph's Barber Shop, where "you have a bunch of big burly valley guys who think it's really sweet of me to call".
Sudan accused neighboring Chad of backing the rebels, but Chad's government denied involvement, condemning it as an "adventure," Reuters reported.
The movie's screenplay blends a story of faith with tales of fantasy and adventure, some reported by Patrick himself and some embellished, centuries later, by his biographers.
As it happens, the premise of the film struck Shelton when a film-maker friend reported back from his adventures at Hump. "He's straight, but he kept talking about the gay porn.
They won all four games on the tour, although history does not report another European adventure in 1924 … For thousands more questions and answers take a trip through the Knowledge archive.
For a poignant literary record of the effects of nineteen-thirties doctrinaire leftism on the artistic life, there's "An American Type," the "new" (posthumous) book by Henry Roth, edited by my colleague Willing Davidson (about whose editorial adventure Charles McGrath recently reported in the Times).
