Obama Wins the Nomination: The Week That Was

'Rolls Royce Umbrella' is a rags-to-riches song. It goes like ‘from misery to mimosas’ and ‘I was poor and now I’m poured up.’

“The only difference is the subject matter, which is something you might find in an outlaw country song, or a rap song. Tales of drugs and streets."

"You can’t make three enemies a week for 10 years and hope to survive. People who were close to him are like, ‘Andrew Cuomo, who’s that?’”

Olitski’s paintings were racing at the fore of their moment, as if the artist could see ahead to the psychedelic biomorphs later emblazoned on headshop posters

"This walking crystallization of cankerous cynicism possesses such legendary anticharisma that there's something princely about him, something perversely impressive"

Given how aggressively Rylie’s tumors were growing and the rate at which they were consuming her bones, her team of doctors had her in the operating room in a matter of days