Big books of the year – working on headlines and awards – were Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which took the Booker, Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture, which won the Costa prize, and Marilynne Robinson's Home, winner of the 2009 Orange Prize.
But I sort of think this is the work of a headline writer with an overactive imagination because a "landslide" -- "possible" or otherwise -- isn't what Tomasky really describes.
She added that Upworthy's style of headlines worked well before it was adopted by copycat websites and the style flooded the internet.
Each morning he'd arrive with a long list of headlines to work from; weather, the toss, the batting order and other stories of the day.
For that reason alone this production, which runs through Jan . 16 is a startling and shaming presence in these United States, where the only work of theater regularly making headlines is a delay-plagued $65 million musical about a comic-book character.
Google's methodology was written by engineers rather than poets, so a straightforward approach to such search engine optimization of headlines generally works best.
The playwright's daughter, Hallie Foote, a Tony nominee for "Dividing the Estate" and one of the most distinguished interpreters of his work, headlines a cast that also includes Jayne Houdyshell, a Tony nominee this year for "Follies".
Parallel construction is more difficult to maintain when you have a large number of headlines or subheadings to work with.
The latest tragedy highlights the importance of the day-to-day work that goes on between the headlines, the work of bringing stories and perspectives of marginalized groups to the center of the public sphere.
While September's climate march in Manhattan might have attracted more headlines, the work of civil society groups here in Washington at next week's International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group meeting will be just as significant.
