Stars Forever (released on Analogue Baroque) is a package of wittily crafted pop songs, but it's also an exercise in commissioned portraiture - something that, to my knowledge, has rarely been attempted in music.
This role was something that, to my knowledge, Balanchine never did before or after: a combination of extreme classical virtuosity with an equally advanced street cool, as if Prince Siegfried had dropped down in Astoria.
Before we examine the specific issues, I'd like to mention something that, to my knowledge, hasn't been discussed much in relation to this story: Mike Daisey's translator, Cathy, who is used as the primary source for discrediting Daisey's stories.
So when a contestant is given the chance to spend the day with the bachelor on a "one-on-one date" (a normal date) as opposed to a "group date" (something that, to my knowledge, does not yet exist in the real world), it's a little like Leonardo DiCaprio just asked them to prom.
Ms. Woliansky is onto something, since no artist, to my knowledge, has done a systematic study of the cultish, identity-suppressing mentality of rock fans.
This is, to my knowledge, something new upon the land, sui generis to a world with the internet as an established fact.
Founder John Andrew Rice Jr. meant to do something never before attempted — and to my knowledge, not attempted since.
That statement was not something we had been expecting, to my knowledge.
"The depository has been around for 25-plus years," Mr. Goldstein said, "and I don't know of a single incident to my knowledge where something like this has occurred".
After that I had an incredible urge to leave behind something, all my knowledge of 40 years doing this work.
