Two weeks ago, Kevin Smith – the film maker who brought the world Clerks, Chasing Amy and the character of Silent Bob – was flying from Oakland to Burbank on Southwest Airlines.
It's as quotable as Wayne's World or Clerks.
At the outset of "The Age of Anxiety" Auden spotlights four of these faces, solitary drinkers in a wartime New York bar: Malin, a Canadian airman; Quant, a world-weary clerk; Rosetta, a buyer for a department-store; and Emble, a young naval recruit.
LONDON — On the ground floor of the sprawling office complex that was, until recently, the home of The News of the World, a bespectacled clerk sat at a counter behind a reinforced glass cashier's window.
Last week, as I settled into my favorite chair to read Chapter 4 of "A Map of the World," a shop clerk came over to me and said, "Sir, this isn't a library".
All four characters on stage are displaced: Rosetta (Sarah Lamb) is a Jewish retail buyer, Quant (Johannes Stepanek) a world-weary Irish clerk, Malin (Federico Bonelli) a Canadian air force officer, and Emble (Alexander Campbell) a cocky midwestern sailor.
It could be a retrograde step for Smith to revisit his first film, and it feels strange to hang out once again in that 90s world of video-clerk nerd-connoisseurship from which Quentin Tarantino famously sprang.
The New Yorker, March 6 , 1948P. 26 The writer recalls his experiences as a code clerk in World War I.
By James Thurber The New Yorker, March 6 , 1948P. 26 The writer recalls his experiences as a code clerk in World War I.
A shockingly tender study of a stalker, the narrative gently probes the claustrophobic world of a newsstand clerk pining for a trashy girl who dumped him.
She was among almost 12,000 women who served in the Navy during World War I as clerks, draftsmen, translators, camouflage designers and recruiters.
