Aunt Edna: I was afraid you'd get pulled over, Clark. You've been exeeding the speed limit for thousands of miles! Rusty Griswold: Dad wasn't speeding. The cop stopped us because Dad forgot to... Ellen Griswold: He was speeding, Rusty! Rusty Griswold...
After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.
Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
Doing a movie about computers between 1978 and 1982? You can't get much less sexy, less active than that.
