A strange anecdote about Vladimir Putin's interest in Bush's college days seems to be included so Hughes can mention Bush's underappreciated athleticism: " 'President Putin knew you had played rugby, but he didn't have the context.
One of its strangest anecdotes is about Mark Clark, an American general in the second world war, being served up the last inhabitant of the Naples aquarium, a baby manatee.
Despiteynch on thetter, Partying and Being fact.
Before they got into sales, they did a million other crazy things, and they're full of anecdotes and strange bits of knowledge.
Writer tells several anecdotes about his strange behavior.
But there are wonderful eruptions of bare lists of strange or silly names, beguiling anecdotes, and interesting titbits.
It's one thing to assemble a lot of anecdotes about how strange Ms. Jolie can be and another to offer a pretty good explanation of how she got that way.
She also relates anecdotes replete with strange, resonant details, such as a story about one Dr. Jackson, who "made, and had his patients eat, what I believe was the first prepared breakfast food: a really delicious concoction called 'granula' " (i.e. granola).
There's been a flood of new oral histories in recent years, but most have focused on the world of entertainment, a fertile place for the anecdotes of excess and strange behavior that can make the genre addictive.
Rudd pocketed his phone with a frown — that anecdote went in a strange direction — and squeezed out some sanitizing lotion from a wall-mounted dispenser.
