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But I think to suggest that I have voiced criticism, this blurb that you talk about, you know what the blurb said?
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You read the blurb on the back of your book.
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That's you, with an Amy Schumer blurb on the front.
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Time would have found someone else to write the blurb.
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I am comforted only by the following blurb on oldcampwhiskey.
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Brown added a blurb of her own in her Facebook post.
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She had asked her many writer friends to contribute a blurb.
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The blurb caught Ms. Swift's career as it was taking flight.
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For example, Donald Trump's blurb says, 'I don't know John Bolton.
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This is the only explicit reference to alcohol in the yearbook blurb.
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Gideon the Ninth turns out to surpass that initial eye-catching blurb.
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"The product blurb ends with: "Not vegetarian due to our cooking method.
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Then we read a blurb about a doomed climbing expedition on Everest.
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We're not just a blurb and not even really just 140 characters.
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Since publication, the president has provided his own blurb for the second edition.
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He asks me to write a blurb for his book, which I did.
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After reading a blurb there, we had to call him for more details.
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"What Senator Sanders said in that book blurb is absolutely true," Briggs said.
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The novel was published in 19903 with an admiring blurb from Harper Lee.
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He asked me to write a blurb for his book, which I did.
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A paperback edition featured a blurb from The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Each blurb is written by a different person, acknowledging the conundrum of personal taste.
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Each job entry should be a short blurb with a description of the role.
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I'll give it up one day and look back on this blurb and cringe.
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"Welcome to our bookstore," reads the blurb for Google's new Editions at Play initiative.
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Plus, I made it through (almost) this entire blurb without making a "forking" reference.
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I guess that bio blurb floating around the internet is a whole other conversation.
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" The writer Nathan Englander, in a blurb, called it a "beautifully written, expansive powerhouse.
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He can use that as a blurb on the 38th printing if he likes.
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Wiener is a rock-solid writer, which Solnit's miscalibrated, publicity-oriented blurb doesn't change.
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The short blurb under his yearbook photo is almost as entertaining as the photo itself.
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"We're trying out best to create a little fairytale in each piece," the blurb reads.
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The book was called 'Last Stand' and somehow featured an advance blurb from George Saunders.
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Photos, illustrations and short videos or other visuals accompanied by a text blurb are welcome.
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Many of the stereotypes of the contemporary artist are already evident in this short blurb.
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Hardy Billington, 65, once called legalizing marriage for same-sex couples an "outrage" in a blurb promoting a 85033 that he authored, according to the Post-Dispatch, which noted that in the same blurb he said homosexual "lifestyles" lead to more deaths than smoking tobacco.
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But I think to suggest that I have voiced criticism, this blurb that you talk about, you know what the blurb said, it said that the next president of the United States has got to be aggressive in bringing people into the political process.
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On the blurb of his recently published book, Sun lists seven perks of playing the cube.
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Sure, it referred to black women as "sistas" in the blurb, but still—could be cool!
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PETA sued Slater and the self-publishing book company, Blurb Inc, on behalf of the monkey.
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" He returned an unironic Zen koan of a blurb: "My only complaint is the title's redundant.
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I gave Harold a blurb out of pity, but I couldn't get through the first story.
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She said she didn't just want to write a blurb or an article for a magazine.
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To parrot the blurb of every Victory Belt martial arts book, no stone is left unturned!
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Tweets all seems to dumb down our news into an easy-to-read, 140 character blurb.
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That will be my blurb for your next book: 'Brian Kilmeade is a phony little creep.
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That one-sentence blurb is, surprisingly, all the Billboard article really says about the whole ordeal.
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Yes, but: The idea of stranded assets is controversial and beyond the scope of this blurb.
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She would draft press releases about human-rights abuses, hoping for a blurb in the Times .
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The Second Seasonal Political Palate, published in 1984, has a blurb from famed lesbian poet Adrienne Rich.
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"Code Blue: Inside America's Medical Industrial Complex" (in full disclosure, I contributed a blurb for this book).
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According to a blurb in Billboard magazine, Bud Matyi had just signed a management and recording deal.
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He tackles these heavy topics with a "fun and engaging" tone, according to a Bill Gates blurb.
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How many "It is happening again" jokes have we forced ourselves to suppress in writing this blurb?
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"If an ICE agent tries to take your child at the border, don't panic," the first blurb reads.
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The same climate blurb was appended to dozens of videos explaining the evidence and impacts of climate change.
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Many don't even click-through, getting the gist of the news just from the headline and preview blurb.
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I might read the blurb on the front of the book, turn it around, and see it's $17.
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I'm the person at the art museum who's going to read the entire blurb next to the painting.
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Here's part of the blurb for that book, which – according to King's official website – is out this May.
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She declined to ask anyone to write a blurb for "Blowout" because she considers the process ethically compromising.
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There's a cover quotation by Sheryl Sandberg, a blurb by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a foreword by Gloria Steinem.
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To enter, you must submit a 250-character blurb about how you&aposre a real-life coffee queen
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Necessary People (by Anna Pitoniak) That book-blurb saying "I couldn't put it down" is usually bullshit, right?
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I shouldn't, I shouldn't make ... I'm wondering when he's going to revoke the blurb on my book. Really?
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A blurb from the conservative website Breitbart was used as evidence to show the radicalism of Abdul-Malik Ryan.
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And you obviously didn't want to ask again for a second book, but he gave you a great blurb.
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"A beautiful love story — in its essence that's what this is," Farrell said in a blurb for the book.
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"Bill Press makes the case ... Read this book," Sanders writes in a blurb featured atop the book's front cover.
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Other entries are bite-sized paragraphs, like a blurb on Australia's Boab Prison Tree or Alaska's Adak National Forest.
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Next to the blurb is a photo of Schneiderman smiling in front of the seal of his elective office.
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And, judging by their college acceptance rates (99%, according to the book's blurb), Summit schools are making an impact.
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Apple's in-line blurb says it helps apps "reduce their network data use"—that's all we know so far.
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The Lost Rolls: 1988–2012 (2015) is published by Blurb and is available from Amazon and other online booksellers.
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My Dark Vanessa also received a seven-figure advance and massive early publicity, including a blurb from Stephen King.
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She even gets the television personality Anthony Bourdain, a famous chef, to do the blurb on the book cover.
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He ultimately gave it a glowing blurb, calling the stories "authentic and rare" after learning of Mr. Dawkins's remorse.
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Blurb has optimized its uploader with Reedsy's specifications and helps you put a barcode at the back of your book.
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Here's the blurb accompanying Shirty Rotten Scoundrels:In the 19th century, the shirt began being worn as a type of undergarment.
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Check out this year's winners below, along with a quick blurb of what each said when they accepted their award.
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After the book was complete I went back and asked that medium to give me a blurb from Charlotte Brontë.
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" He's followed by Laurie Metcalf's character Jackie Harris, who repeats an episode 2 blurb: "You think I'm smart, don't you?
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Each post has a little story or blurb about the featured dog, and the account shares new posts almost daily.
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Notably, it is not the character Jack Reacher, who I assumed was the same until halfway through writing this blurb.
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The Times, a London-based paper, published a formal blurb about Elena Goulding and art dealer Caspar Jopling&aposs engagement.
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In "Torpor," the wife, Sylvie, asks the downtown photographer Nan Goldin to provide a blurb for one of her videos.
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" Released: September 20193 Sequel: Everything is Fucked: A Book About Hope Ironic cover blurb: "The opposite of every other book.
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Well, here's hoping this tiny blurb in a larger feature about shows to watch over Thanksgiving counts as "major media attention"!
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Asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press" about the "Buyer's Remorse" book blurb, Sanders said the economy has improved under Obama.
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"A "bird lore" blurb under the photo on the society's website said: "Bald eagles eat pretty much anything they want to.
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Alongside a Wikipedia blurb about the publisher if available, the context button will now also show the age of the domain.
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It won't earn the chapter a blurb in Dezeen, but it might save a kid from falling though a broken floor.
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"After her hippie British parents are murdered, Lilly is raised at a Sufi shrine in Morocco," reads the blurb on Goodreads.
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It's a great novel on its own terms, but it's also the last book that Sonny Mehta asked me to blurb.
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There's too much right about this game to fit into a little blurb like this, but above it all: that webswinging, though.
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A video explaining quartz's ability to produce an electrical charge under applied stress would have been more enlightening than the brief blurb.
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On July 9, the company added a blurb of text underneath some videos about climate change, which provided a scientifically accurate explainer.
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Editor: Hey, your favorite meme contribution is due on December 20th *December 21st arrives* Editor: Hey, your meme blurb is late Me:
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If you have written a book blurb for the author or been blurbed by that person, you can't review him or her.
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But the book clearly has a contender for blurb of the year, from Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow co-creator Marc Guggenheim.
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Time magazine declared Robbie one of 21962's "Top 290 Most Influential People" and enlisted Scorsese to write the blurb about her.
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This got him his first media coverage, in the form of a short blurb and some photographs in the Tampa Bay Times.
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Each example is illustrated by a sample of spreads as well as a short blurb discussing its historical context, format, and creator.
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Mueller's obstruction of justice case against Trump looks damning A publisher asked Ursula Le Guin to blurb an anthology with no women writers.
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The blurb said that the next president of the United States has got to be aggressive in bringing people into the political process.
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You tell a story in the book about asking someone for a blurb for your first book, and you didn't get a response.
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All I had, it seemed, was the blurb about Sang's book on his publisher's website, stating some of the biographical information given above.
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"It's almost like your best commercial is standing in front of your phone, taking a selfie, and writing a little blurb," he says.
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And what the blurb said is that I think the next president should be very aggressive in bringing people into the political process.
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Beto O'Rourke: One of us (maybe even the one writing this blurb) has historically been very skeptical of the now-failed Senate candidate.
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The Rio2016 website's blurb says it will "deliver a message for planet earth" symbolized by each athlete being given a seedling to plant.
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The editor John Freeman has called her "one of the best short story writers alive," and this is one blurb that's no exaggeration.
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"I really loved the story," she told me recently, and she wrote a glowing blurb that appears on the back of the book.
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I try really hard to write personal cards with a blurb about each gift because I'm so grateful for everyone's generosity and thoughtfulness.
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If the blurb from Charles Stross describing it as "lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" can't sell you, nothing will.
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Each entry comes with a short blurb about the significance behind the event, as well as links to the Times' coverage of each event.
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Time got Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's ethically dubious foreign policy consigliere, to write a short blurb about Kushner — and his praise was comically faint.
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In other words, a flesh-and-blood astrologer is probably going to paint a fuller picture for you than an online blurb ever could.
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The blurb under the link was short: "When Caroline Thompson Googles herself and discovers the shocking details of a past she doesn't remember..."Wait.
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Colson Whitehead has a blurb on the front cover of "Exhalation," and Barack Obama has one on the back, so this is rarefied air.
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The poster has a blurb from Nick Ray (2), of all people—four cats with a passion—and another from someone named Scott Cohen: killers.
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And I wrote a little blurb about how I talked to her and got the setlist from her, and people really responded to that piece.
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Some years before, Chimamanda had sent her an early copy of "Half of a Yellow Sun," along with the blurb she had received from Achebe.
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" The cards even come with a Eno-approved blurb: "Let the Oblique Strategies fissure into a million wonderful variants, of which this is the first.
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He follows me on Twitter; he asked me to write a blurb for his book, which I did; he calls my agent looking for projects.
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Ms. Sandberg had contributed a blurb to Ms. Klobuchar's 2015 memoir, and the senator's chief of staff had previously worked at Ms. Sandberg's charitable foundation.
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Thomas Mann wrote a blurb for the cover when the book was translated into English in 1939, but it has long been out of print.
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" The same month that the interview ran, Ms. Garcia agreed to provide a blurb for Ms. Carroll's forthcoming memoir, "What Do We Need Men For?
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" Released: August 2017 Sequels: Stop Doing That Sh*t; Do the Work (coming October 2019) Ironic cover blurb: "If you're easily offended, stop reading now.
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If there were a 300-word blurb-worthy story about this puzzle and its construction/constructor, you'd be the first ones I'd share it with.
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PETA sued Slater and his San Francisco-based self-publishing company Blurb, which published a book called "Wildlife Personalities" that includes the "monkey selfie" photos.
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I grabbed Patricia Lockwood's Priestdaddy from my nightstand and bludgeoned the insect, which exploded into a powdery smear across a glowing blurb from the Boston Globe.
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The ad, an online spot entitled "Endorsements" showed a blurb from the Telegraph praising his integrity, but the ad did not say the paper endorsed him.
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That's where I found, for example, the little blurb that talks about Dorothy Vaughan first setting off from Farmville, Virginia, to take a job at Langley.
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The Pro membership includes unlimited photo storage, an ad-free experience, advanced statistics, automatic backup through Auto-Uploader and discounts from Adobe, Blurb, SmugMug and Priime.
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Amazon compensates at each book pile with a small placard featuring its percentiles of popularity and review notes from blurb-savvy customers ("Far beyond the ordinary…").
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Instead, only a small blurb indicates that the House Judiciary Committee "met at night to debate the articles," and refers readers to page A19 for coverage.
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After watching her video and reading the site's blurb about "layering" we ventured to the virtual vulva, taking turns to practice the moves we were just taught.
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We will give a platform to those communities directly affected by oil company operations, bringing their voices into these spaces to drown out the corporates' PR blurb.
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" In her blurb for "Text Me When You Get Home," the New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino describes the forming and preserving of these ties as "miraculously comfortable.
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But it was a grey, mass-market paperback called "Hope and Help for Your Nerves," with a front-cover blurb from Ann Landers, that became my talisman.
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"I spent years feeling alone and scared, like I was the only one on the planet that could possibly be going through this," reads the welcome blurb.
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" A 1960 blurb in Playbill noted that he "began the season with a set of splendid notices for his performance in William Inge's 'A Loss of Roses.
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"All people deserve accessible information about health and science," reads a blurb from Amy Ewing, vice president of Palladian Partners, in explaining Palladian's mission on its website.
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For nice-looking hard copy, you can also order professional-looking prints and books of your account's photos through online services like Social Print Studio or Blurb.
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I've written at least some version of this blurb every year since 2014 (when I joined Vox), and the Globes' horrible TV taste has only gotten worse.
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" The Skyhorse website's page has a section for reviews, which includes this blurb from the journalist Dan Rather: "There's never been anything like this in American history.
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In the blurb, Mark Ames recounts how he and Taibbi sexually harassed junior female staffers at the Moscow-based newspaper they co-edited, demanding blowjobs and anal sex.
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But Julie Gilhart, who was the fashion director at Barneys, had been telling everyone, "Thakoon is the one to watch," and Sally Singer wrote a blurb at Vogue.
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"I have always been intrigued by and drawn to creative pursuits including fashion's eccentricities, a love for design, and visual displays of fashion," Santos wrote in the blurb.
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His blurb was understandably pulled from the front cover of "There There," Tommy Orange's powerful first novel, and swapped on the finished book with one from Margaret Atwood.
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"l love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down," he volunteered, and he will never need a better blurb than that.
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But that's far too jokey a way to introduce a blurb about a moment so grave that "Argestes" uses multiple reaction shots to underline how grave it is.
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In 2016, Letters of Note unearthed a scathing letter she penned in 1971 when asked to blurb a science fiction anthology that contained no stories by women writers.
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On January 11, 1972, The London Gazette published a quick little blurb about Elton John's name change, because that's how they did it back in the day before Twitter.
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And when I'm ready—you know I'm not hiding anything—pictures will start popping up, but I'm just not going to blurb it out to the world just yet.
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Photo-printing competitors like Blurb, Mpix, Snapfish, Picaboo, Sincerely and Groovebook promise users design tools, premium papers and the ability to send printed photos to loved ones by post.
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The 24-minute film represents the 24 in hours in a day, but Cooley didn't want to speed up his footage to make a timelapse blurb of the event.
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Underneath several of these videos was a small gray panel titled "September 11 attacks," which contained a blurb from the Encyclopedia Britannica's article about the September 153 terrorist attacks.
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Once, after a foreign publisher turned down one of her novels owing to "a fatal lack of plot," she suggested that the phrase be used as a cover blurb.
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According to a blurb released by the BBC, an upcoming documentary features Hawking saying that humans need to find a new planet to inhabit in the next 100 years.
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Then send to each editor an alluring 200-word blurb (as on book jackets; don't give away the ending!), the first chapter plus perhaps two others, and an S.
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Unfortunately, the archive presents little supporting information for the vast majority of biennials, lacking full digitization of catalogues or even a blurb about each biennial's cultural impact or highlights.
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He also got involved in "embarrassing public spats" with figures like William F. Buckley Jr., who concocted a flattering blurb by Schlesinger to paste mischievously on his own book.
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The new options include metal and canvas art prints, 4 x 6 paper prints to send out to relatives, and photo books (printed in partnership with Blurb and Chatbooks).
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Even The Onion weighed in with a satirical blurb about Berkeley being on police lockdown after loose pages of The Wall Street Journal were abandoned on a park bench.
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" The book's blurb on the French Amazon website describes him as being a long way from the petty thieves of the slums and instead one of the "criminal aristocracy.
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Asked to blurb an all-male anthology in 1987, she shot back a searing letter that regularly makes the rounds on social media every time it is re-discovered.
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There's sort of a spoiler built into the very existence of this movie, so you may want to skip past this blurb if you'd like to avoid Marvel spoilers.
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With millions of followers on Tencent Weibo, he became one of the country's biggest social-media celebrities ("a Bolshevik" is how he described himself in the blurb of his account).
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Blurb text tells some of their secrets, but I fill in the gaps, looking at their poles and their equators, conjuring up mental images of their skies and their surfaces.
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The company says it's offering Flickr Pro members a $35 credit towards their first Blurb order and another $35 towards a second order of $70 or more when they renew.
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"We … wanted to bring some of the customization that one sees with online publishing services like Blurb and Milk to bear on museum publishing," Mark told Hyperallergic in an email.
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My wife was the one who discovered the small blurb in my Columbia University alumni magazine about the two neuroscientists, Sherwin and Muraskin, trying to work in Major League Baseball.
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Bestselling author Caridad Pineiro (One Summer Night) penned the final result, but the blurb and author bio commit to the fantasy that this book is by and about Jane Villanueva.
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" Michael Shermer, who writes about atheism and science, initially gave the book a fulsome jacket blurb: "This book should be read by every atheist and theist passionate about the truth.
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It's like when you see a blurb for 'Transformers 5,' and it says, 'It blew my mind,' when the full quote is, 'It blew my mind that God allowed this.
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The same contact number, username and blurb on multiple ads are possible signs, while descriptions such as 'new', 'young' and 'fresh' may mean a woman is underage or a slave.
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After all, the book comes with a coveted blurb from star Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the heralded 2018 novel and There, There.
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Whatever the reason, I finished his review wondering if he had read more of Gibson's intriguing study than the table of contents and the publisher's blurb on the dust jacket.
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When all you need is a list that says "Yep, these employees have all seen this blurb of text" so you can meet some new compliance requirement, it shouldn't be complicated.
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The press release doesn't include specifics about when the service will become available or for how many stores, but did include the following blurb: Where do I want a Crunchwrap Supreme?
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When her English publisher asked me for a blurb for "Transit," I sent back, "Rachel Cusk is too smart for her own good," and I meant this as the ultimate compliment.
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" In 2005 she gave Ms. Bezos a glowing blurb on her debut novel, "The Testing of Luther Albright," calling it, "a rarity: a sophisticated novel that breaks and swells the heart.
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" When you click into this gallery, you see a blurb that reads, "Shape The Invisible is a collaboration between Zara and new talents emerging from some of the most important design schools.
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"By no means is this site meant to serve as a condemnation of an entire project," the creators, who come from the advertising world, insist in the blurb describing their noncommercial project.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Indonesia resident last year, accusing nature photographer David John Slater and self-publishing company Blurb of copyright infringement.
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I do hope you read that whole blurb because it's a marvel of self-professed altruism and a not-so-subtle reminder that the NIH is biting the hand that fed it.
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She fell in love with the book (cover blurb: "a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being") and soon realized she had stumbled across a philosophy called existentialism.
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While I am the thousandth person to make this joke, it's the only way I can make the blurb for these middle-of-the-pack Pokémon interesting, so there you have it.
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The liberal TV and radio veteran and longtime columnist Bill Press has even written a book on the theme, "Buyer's Remorse: How Obama Let Progressives Down," for which Mr. Sanders provided a blurb.
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A screenshot of the man's little blurb was posted to Twitter by Atlanta-based news, weather, and traffic host Mark Arum, who wrote , "As a former waiter, please don't ever do this. Ever."
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A link to a directory of Beatles photos on a random FTP server would get just as much text as a blurb about resources explaining the then-new North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The most interesting interactive blurb is the "What was it like for me?" section, in which the designer talks about how the experience affected her as a child, living so intimately with strangers.
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Watch More from VICELAND: The researchers started their data analysis with stats from 24 because that was one year after a short blurb in cannabis magazine High Times explained the origins of 220.
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With that in mind, we decided to lay out some of the top-rated life insurance options for those shopping online, with a little blurb about each to distinguish it from its peers.
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Most people won't take the time to read a whole article about something, but they can look at a picture and see a small blurb below it and see the connection through the imagery.
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It makes me laugh when I read marketing blurb on some smoked salmon products and it'll say something like, 'After we smoke the salmon, we leave it for three days before we carve it.
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The week-long event, the boldest since Modi launched the initiative to emulate China's export miracle back in 2014, seeks to "spark a renewed sense of pride in India's manufacturing", its marketing blurb says.
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In an email sent to users this week, Flickr said that it was turning over photo books to publishing service Blurb as of October 16, 2017, but the wall art service was simply being terminated.
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When the new Wikipedia blurb policy took effect in July, YouTube did not publicly say that climate change was an impacted topic, and the company did not notify users who had uploaded the affected videos.
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Google has already adapted around all-party consent laws in its other products — if you record a call in Google Voice, it automatically plays a little prerecorded blurb announcing that the call is being recorded.
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In court on Wednesday, a lawyer for Blurb threw shade at PETA by pointing out that prior news coverage (and PETA's own president, Ingrid Newkirk!) had identified the monkey in the selfie as a female.
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Each entry features at least one "representative" high angle photo on a solid white backdrop, a brief blurb about the console's place in gaming history, and a chart featuring technical specs and other quantifiable details.
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While the book's promo blurb promises stories of "taking ecstasy for breakfast (most days), drinking bottles of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently)," the fallout from Moby's writings is just as messy.
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The introductory blurb that runs with the print puzzle now lists Mr. Thackray's day jobs as "writing pub trivia, designing T-shirts and house-managing live theater," presumably at different times, which still sounds exhausting.
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By limiting themselves to one museum's resources, Mr Hislop and Mr Hockenhull produce an incoherent a grab-bag of 180 items that are linked together thanks only to the heroic efforts of the show's blurb writers.
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Jalasoft founder and CEO Jorge Lopez says the company's decision to invest effort in kicking the tyres of Jolla's alternative mobile ecosystem is about gaining control — or seeking "technological libration" as the website blurb puts it.
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" In case you missed it, the blurb is a Notepad that says "The answers to 26-, 27-, 2400-, 62-, 69-, 90-, 103- and 115-Across are themselves clues to the names spelled by their circled letters.
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I don't think the write-up brought anyone to the show who wasn't considering, but it was a very well attended show and that little blurb hyped it up enough to get people through the doors.
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Mark Zuckerberg: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019 Sean Parker, the founding president and eventual critic of Facebook, writes a blurb for his former CEO on the occasion of Zuckerberg being named to a Time list.
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The announcement came in the form of a carefully crafted tweet in which the former president posted a photo of a blurb from the back-cover of his upcoming book, Tout pour la France (Everything for France).
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A blurb overlaying the photo explains that after Facebook "censored" the original image, the website "replaced it with an image of a nude torso of a man, which, itself, does not violate" the site's terms of service.
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Don't get turned away by that title though, check out the first line of the movie's blurb on IMDB: Doesn't exactly make me tingle with anticipation to know what happens next, but let's give it a chance.
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Similar to today's bullet points, each individual got a short blurb noting their age, location, source of wealth, and in some cases, tidbits such as "in continual pain 50 years from back injury" and "principal hobby: sailing."
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American Dirt is a thriller about a woman and her young son fleeing Mexico for the US, and its author Jeanine Cummins received a seven-figure advance and massive early publicity, including a blurb from Stephen King.
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He has written regularly about foreign policy and collected a series of essays in a book, "While America Slept: Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis," published in 2016 with a cover blurb from Mr. Bolton.
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Here's the Netflix synopsis, which somehow doesn't capture exactly how Rudd-y this whole show is: That blurb calls the show an "eight episode series" which suggests that it will only have one season for some reason.
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While the feed's fashion and food sections feel like Pinterest and Instagram, the tech section more closely resembles Reddit, with a more technical blurb of text above the photo explaining how the poster has been using a gadget.
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And then there was the New Hampshire Union-Leader, a notoriously conservative paper, which made only passing mention of the story with a pro-Trump blurb "White House disputes Comey memo" and teased to a story on B2.
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In addition to providing moral support for countless aspiring puzzle makers, he was not afraid to step outside his comfort zone and write a blurb for the book of a first-time author when no one else would.
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I reviewed A Dark Dreambox and Song Cave's reprint of Kenward Elmslie's gorgeous The Orchid Stories; I also contributed a blurb for the press's forthcoming Songs for Schizoid Siblings by Lionel Ziprin, another outsider deserving of more attention.
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It's one thing to passively advertise a company site or offer up a brief blurb about other products sold by the same company, but pushing hard to get you to visit off-Amazon websites is suspicious at best.
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More important, she can call on them for a blurb — a process I had never fully understood, vaguely supposing writers composed them as they lounged in some writers' Arcadia: herding sheep, strumming lyres, spontaneously praising one another's work.
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The publicity team was thrilled when Ritter, the star of the Netflix series "Jessica Jones," agreed to blurb the book — and even more thrilled when, unprompted, she shared a picture of it with her 655,000 followers on Instagram.
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"The egg, which is made by Vancouver-based design firm Orijin Design Company, was advertised next to a blurb that said it is "ergonomically designed as a useful reminder to help bring ease and mindfulness to the present moment.
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" In a cover blurb for what came to be regarded as an underground classic, J. G. Ballard, the postapocalyptic novelist, called the collection, edited by Mr. Parfrey, "compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times.
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Purportedly discovered by Beloff at a Chelsea flea market, it "appears to have been created by Albert Grass over a period of time from perhaps 1936 to the outbreak of World War II in 1939," reads the introductory blurb.
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She cited Sanders's decision to blurb a new book by liberal writer Bill Press called Buyer's Remorse about progressive disenchantment with Obama, and reminded viewers that Sanders openly called for Obama to face a primary challenge from the left in 2012.
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Presented by Aileen Sage Architects, the insightful and enjoyable offering from Australia was dedicated, as the blurb on the wall stated, to "a bridge between people … a well-known public space, where the personal and the communal intersect": the swimming pool.
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Professor Christine Blasey Ford penned a blurb for Chanel Miller in Time magazine's 28503 Next list, thanking her for advocating for sexual assault survivors and for her courageous testimony against Brock Turner, who was convicted of sexually assaulting her in 22019.
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Mr. Singer loved the letter so much that he not only framed it, but also decided to make it the sole blurb on the back cover of his new book, "Trump and Me," which will be published on July 53.
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Product descriptions are arguably the grimmest and most ambient of all writing jobs, and it can be difficult to remember that there are real people filing the blurb for that red twill button-down you're eyeing in J. Crew clearance.
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Photobook platform Blurb offers a variety of photobook and trade book templates that are ideal for cookbooks, starting at $23 for a 24-page, 8- by 10-inch hardcover, and going up in price by page or template style from there.
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We proudly positioned the blurb announcing his lecture at the front of the newsprint catalog on its own two-page spread, rather than tucked away amid the litany of courses taught by shamans, sexperts, and self-professed real estate tycoons.
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A day after Griffin moved to axe Jason, a 22018-word blurb in the Federal Register announced the end of two other independent scientific boards, including the Navy Research Advisory Committee, which had advised the Navy and Marine Corps for 212 years.
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Tim was the project consultant for "Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder," the 2002 Sony release that paired the pianist's 1955 and 1981 "Goldberg" recordings, and the new Fischer edition has a jacket blurb from Tim praising it as a valuable contribution.
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"Maria Toorpakai is a true inspiration, a pioneer for millions of other women struggling to pave their own paths to autonomy, fulfillment, and genuine personhood," Khaled Hosseini, author of best-selling novel The Kite Runner, wrote in a blurb for her book.
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"There's a good chance her Instagram is going to help the book more than her blurb on the back cover, which will mostly be seen by people picking it up in a physical bookstore," says James Meader, Picador's executive director of publicity.
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Handy describes the author's books as a blend of "imagination, humor, rhyme, rigor, silliness, aggression and chaos theory," which is as efficient and accurate a blurb as I've ever read, and he finds fanciful ways to show the true nature of Geisel's genius.
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Elisa Camahort Page, an author and entrepreneur, includes a lot of information in her signature: her name, her pronouns, her many roles, her mobile and fax numbers, her website, her LinkedIn and information about her latest book, including a blurb promoting it.
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Although the judge dismissed the suit in a written opinion released Friday, the organization has leave to amend—meaning that if it wants, PETA can try yet again to get damages from nature photographer David Slater and the self-publishing company Blurb, Inc.
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On second thought, maybe Adam should have written this blurb.) —KA This Steven Soderbergh–directed movie is a reunion between Soderbergh and star André Holland (who both worked on The Knick), and a Moonlight reunion for Holland and (its Oscar-winning) screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney.
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His blurb notes how he thinks traditional preventative healthcare is "fundamentally wrong" in its approach, and Pushpala emphasized in his talk the strength of Sano's team, which he said includes engineers from Apple, Google, Samsung and FitBit as well as researchers from Stanford and MIT.
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As an out-of-body experience, it's hard to beat: Sitting on the couch watching the Sunday morning shows, when suddenly you hear Chuck Todd and George Stephanopoulos hammer Bernie Sanders about a blurb he wrote for the cover of your new book. OMG.
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"I think the video is a good effort, but I wonder what kinds of real-life effects it's going to have versus it's more Netflix being able to have a disclaimer like 'oh, we know this is triggering; here's our blurb about it,' " she said.
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It was like a mini CES hall of fame, with a comically undersized pedestal made to hold a tiny robot with a blurb detailing the Ozobot's first appearance at the show back in 2014, all perched on a 500 square-foot plot with faux wood flooring.
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A new one by a firm called POW invites Facebook users to claim tokens for nothing; when they later become convertible into other tokens, the first to take advantage of the offer could "become worth $124bn…making them the richest person on Earth", the blurb says.
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In September, PETA filed its lawsuit against Mr. Slater, his company, and Blurb, the company that published his book, asking the judge to allow it to represent Naruto and distribute the image's proceeds for the benefit of the Indonesian reserve's crested macaques, a critically endangered species.
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"The Fractured Republic" is useful in helping us understand why conservative intellectuals have been so intensely opposed to Donald Trump, even though Levin doesn't mention him (the only active politician he seems to praise by name is Paul Ryan, who has provided a blurb for the book).
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The cornerstone of his collection is Frank Edwards' Strange World—"a carefully authenticated compendium of strange, true events—so fantastic they baffle even the most brilliant mind," according to the blurb—but it has grown to include hundreds of books, pamphlets, and magazines published before 1980.
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Haviv's three previous monographs have focused on specific places and conflicts: Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Haiti, but The Lost Rolls, published by print-on-demand company Blurb, focuses instead on the images that were never used in his professional career — indeed, were never until now even developed.
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T.R. MURPHY, O.B.E. BETHESDA, MD. To the Editor: Michael Ondaatje's wonderful story (By the Book, June 17) about the "self-blurb" the crime novelist Donald Westlake gave his own book, written under his Richard Stark pseudonym, "I wish I had written this book," is not unique.
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According to the hip-hop historian Shea Serrano, author of "The Rap Year Book" (to which I contributed a blurb), the two have been closely intertwined since the 1980s, when politicians started condemning gangster rappers like N.W.A., and rap groups like Public Enemy were writing explicitly political songs.
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The other pamphlet available at the state archives, from October 1975, came with "Senate Approves Biden Anti-Busing Amendment" as its top headline, but also a blurb about Biden advancing a bill to ban discriminatory credit lending practices on the basis of age, race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Dr. Bertin, who is the author of "The Family A.D.H.D. Solution" (disclosure: I wrote a blurb for the book), and "Mindful Parenting for A.D.H.D.," said research shows that parents of children with A.D.H.D. are more anxious, more stressed and less confident, and that their marriages may be strained.
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Though Willow can often seem like an enigma (just read her New York Times profile if you need any further proof on that front), the sock company managed to perfectly sum her up in the brief blurb announcing the newest addition to their roster of super high profile collaborators.
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She became a favorite of both mainstream journalists — Jake Tapper said in a book blurb that she "picked up on a political phenomenon long before polls or pundits had any idea of what was happening" — and conservatives, who see her as a rare voice of America's traditionalist heartland.
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The author, Glynnis MacNicol — whose book, in full disclosure, I endorsed in a book jacket blurb — recently appeared on stage in New York with Aminatou Sow, the co-host of the "Call Your Girlfriend" podcast, who asked her why she decided to pour her experience into a memoir.
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A few days ago, irate that he was not named in a blurb for my book on Amazon, among other perceived slights, he sent me a string of texts claiming that he'd taken out a brokerage account in my name and traded on secret information I'd supposedly fed him.
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There's also the manuscript for Harriet Beecher Stowe's blurb for "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth," as well as a 1773 first edition of Phillis Wheatley — the first African-American to publish a book of poetry, and perhaps the first American woman to try to earn a living by writing.
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" This blurb is truncated, and the full quote makes Sanders sound less hostile to Obama: "Bill Press makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes.
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Though praised by the Post's Carlos Lozada as "that rare Washington tell-all that surpasses its pre-publication hype" and "the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency"—a blurb being used in the Post's edition—it also encompasses the Trump books that have come before it.
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The inspiration for this puzzle was bird poop — I was going to end my blurb there, but I'll go on — which morphed into the more refined bird droppings, which became the original revealer for this puzzle, in which four five-letter bird names are embedded in the long Down entries.
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Here's everything Apple announced at its 'Show Time' event Let's see if I can get this all into one blurb: There's the streaming service AppleTV+, the updated TV app with Channels (basically, subscriptions for other services), a $9.99 subscription for Apple News+ (including Extra Crunch) and a gaming subscription service called Apple Arcade.
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" Sanders endorsed the Bill Press book, "Buyer's Remorse: How Obama let Progressives Down," writing in a blurb that it "makes the case why, long after taking the oath of office, the next president of the United States must keep rallying the people who elected him or her on behalf of progressive causes.
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On a recent trip to Italy (yes, we realize this is an absurd way to start a horoscope blurb), we came across a woman Renaissance painter we'd never heard of before and, upon returning to the US, tracked down a copy of the only book (now out of print, naturally) about her life.
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And yet the welcome blurb now seems surreal, in light of the prisoners housed there: Lush with 600-year-old olive trees, landscaped gardens and swaying palms, The Ritz-Carlton, Riyadh is one of those Saudi Arabia luxury hotels that completely envelopes its discerning guests in majestic surroundings and discreet, attentive service.
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Around the time of the hack, Warren Red, who is based in Philadelphia, looked up the names on the list with Pennsylvania addresses and discovered that one of them, Ian Lichterman, was that of a police officer — the name had appeared in a short news blurb about an award he'd won for his patrol work.
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"While China's leaders have tried to whitewash and ignore Zhao's important roles during China's early reform era, this four-volume set goes far towards setting the historical record straight and restoring his reputation," David Shambaugh, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, wrote in a blurb for the collection.
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The Amazon blurb for the book probably has the best, most concise explanation of the book, which captures one aspect of the search for identity among America's Muslim communities: A Muslim punk house in Buffalo, New York, inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi'a skinheads, Indonesian skaters, Sudanese rude boys, gay Muslims, drunk Muslims, and feminists.
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I remember initially being put off by its blurb from Marjorie Perloff, who, on a different occasion, stated: I do not see why we must make an either-or choice between reading Beckett or reading Aimé Cesaire, between calling out and into question "cultural desires, drives, anxieties, or prejudices," or analyzing metonymy, chiasmus, sprung rhythm, lineation, anaphora, parataxis, trochees, and so forth.
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In all the years that I have known Vogelsang — we met at a party for the American Poetry Review at the once famous, now closed Gotham Book Mart, located at 51 West 47th Street in the mid-1970s – he has never once asked me to review his work, write a blurb, or even say something nice about his work in public.
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I first met Conner in the in the mid-1990s, while living in Berkeley, California, and I have written on his work many times; in 2013, I reviewed an exhibition that paired Ziprin and Smith; and in 2017, I provided a blurb for Ziprin's book of poems, Songs for Schizoid Siblings (Song Cave, 19503), with an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Philip Smith.
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Every year when Time's list of 100 Most Influential People comes out, there are some surprising nods and snubs (this year's includes some... interesting choices, like situating Christine Blasey Ford alongside Brett Kavanaugh, or having Steve Bannon write a blurb, or Chris Christie lavishing praise upon President Trump.) But the list at least serves as a record of a certain point in time.
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While Mr. O'Brien does not have the record of television punditry that helped land Mr. Bolton the job, he has written regularly about foreign policy and collected a series of essays into a book, "While America Slept: Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis," published in 2016 with a cover blurb from Mr. Bolton and a glowing introduction from the conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt.
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If you ask people to think about it, they're probably vaguely aware that writers agree to blurb books because they have some connection, either professional or personal, to the author – but the genre seems to demand a certain effacement of those connections, as though Famous Author X just happened to come across a delightful manuscript that somebody accidentally left in a Starbucks and was so taken with it he felt compelled to say something really nice about it.
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" Hall being a descendent from literary giant Herman Melville (hence his middle and stage name), has unsurprisingly won him his some fans in the literary world, including The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie who wrote the following blurb: "[Porcelain chronicles] ten years of Moby's life, mostly in the decrepit, dangerous, much-loved New York City of the 1990s, a life comically overcrowded, filthy, alcohol-fuelled, vegan, unbelievably noisy, full of spit and semen and some sort of Christianity; and often, suddenly, moving.
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How scary: [SCREAMED THIS WHOLE BLURB OUT LOUD WHILE I WAS WRITING IT.] Jeremy Saulnier's siege thriller Green Room came out in April 2016, and set up a battle between some punk scene kids and some actual Nazis — a full nine months before the leftist internet's schism over whether it was okay and hilarious to punch Richard Spencer in the face on TV. It's about physically fighting the evil that you've spent most of your life just talking about, and in that way, it's a cathartic fantasy about righteous anger.
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