['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 219th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] I remembered Roberto Benigni when I listened to Coco Gauff’s post-match comments after ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 218th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] Steve Almond, a short story writer and essayist from the United States of ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 217th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] ‘A Wanderer and a Memory Keeper,’ is the title of a guest presentation ...

‘Oh those Russians!’ In the raspy voice of Bobby Ferral is how one of the most iconic songs of the German-based pop group Boney M, ‘Rasputin,’ ends. Written by the group’s creator Frank Farina, the song is about Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, widely considered a mystical healer and a close friend and advisor of Tsar Nicholas II and his family during ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 216th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] I believe it was in the early part of 1986 that Professor Ashely ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 215th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] There have been portraits that hang in empty halls. Frameless heads on nameless ...

Ioseb Besarionis due Jughashvili or Joseph Vissarionocivh Stalin, the strongman of the USSR died. Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was crowned queen of England. James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. Cambodia declares its independence from France. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay completed the first recorded ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 214th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] They were tiny at the time. They would grow and pursue destinations unimagined ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 213th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] A friend confided in another friend about how he conducts his life: ‘for ...

A suspected new mural by artist Banksy is pictured in Marsh Lane in Bristol, Britain, February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Rebecca Naden['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 212th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 211th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] The word ‘entirety’ means ‘the whole of something.’ The keyword here is ‘something.’ ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 210th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] The state of Missouri in the United States of America is home to ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 209th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] I am not much of a movie buff. I tend to re-watch movies ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 208th article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] Dawn and dusk are thresholds. Markers that define a before and after. Words, ...

The popular romcom ‘When Harry met Sally’ ends a classic recognition and declaration of love with the traditional song heralding the new year being played in the background. Harry, played by Billy Crystal, and Sally, played by Meg Ryan briefly discuss the meaning of the song, ‘Auld Lang Syne’. Sally concludes, ‘anyway, it’s about old friends.’ And they kiss.I watched ...

When I was around 10 years old my father told two stories related to ageing. One was about Dorian Gray, the highly acclaimed novel by Oscar Wilde. He offered a to-a-ten-year-old version.‘Dorian Gray was a beautiful young man. Someone paints his portrait. Dorian sells his soul so that while the portrait aged, he would not. Years later he sees the ...

On Monday the 21st of August, 2023, Sha’Carri Richardson won the 100m gold at the 2023 World Championship in Budapest. Her 10.65 second run is a new championship record. It equalled the mark for the 5th fastest 100m dash in the world which she now shares with Shericka Jackson of Jamaica (set in July 2023) and Marion Jones of the ...

Years ago I made an observation: open wounds are for blood-letting, open words are for love-letting. Word play, nothing more, one might say, but probably a victim of the timeless trap of writers falling in love with their words, I used it as the title of a collection of poetry published in 2014: ‘Open words are for love-letting…’Six years ago ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 203rd article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] Big shoes to fill. That’s a phrase we hear when a great retires ...

['The Morning Inspection' is the title of a column I wrote for the Daily News from 2009 to 2011, one article a day, Monday through Saturday. This is the 202nd article in the new series that began in December 2022. Links to previous articles are given below] 'Love is…’ is a syndicated cartoon written and drawn by Bill Asprey since ...