I am sometimes reminded of Herbert von Karajan when I hear Mr. Maazel.
As a tax scholar who writes about issues that can hit rich people in the pocketbook, I am sometimes reminded why the institution of tenure, for all its flaws, is worth keeping around.
As you watch him building up -- calmly, patiently, almost stealthily -- to a big comic effect, you're sometimes reminded of the ominous stillness that would precede his acts of violence in films like "Godfather II," "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull".
He power-walks around truck stops, some of which cover four or five acres, though he balks at the idea of using the area around his truck as a running track (32 laps around a rig is a mile, drivers are sometimes reminded).
Looking at the locations of online readers of The New Yorker these days, I am sometimes reminded of the famous Saul Steinberg cover, with Ninth Avenue in the foreground, the Hudson River and the American landmass in the background, and the Pacific Ocean and rest of the world in the distant background, barely acknowledged.
Looking at the locations of online readers of The New Yorker these days, I am sometimes reminded of the famous Saul Steinberg cover, with Ninth Avenue in the foreground, the Hudson River and the American landmass in the background, and the Pacific Ocean and rest of the world in the distant background, barely acknowledged.
I'm sometimes reminded of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edward Thomas, but the tutelary spirit seems to be Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," and that novel's patient italicized passages (written from the point of view of the author) about sunlight building and spreading across the English landscape.
With its driving, motivic nature and percussive chords, one is sometimes reminded of Prokofiev's Sixth Piano Sonata.
But even under relatively moderate President Hassan Rouhani's much less stifling regime, young people are sometimes reminded of the restrictions imposed upon them by their government.
When they seek my guidance, I'm sometimes reminded of Alice in "Through the Looking Glass," who finds that nothing is quite what it seems.
