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Recent Examples of purple passageWriters inevitably fall in love with their more purple passages.—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
The school alleged in the lawsuit that Phillips’ counsel later sent LAFS a demand letter that included quotations from his conversations with Heavener and Tammy Elliott, the school’s president.
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Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
23 Sep. 2025
Ravn’s prose is striking too, richly marbled with quotation and detail pulled from primary source letters and court documents.
But Sandberg played alongside some all-time talkers such as Mark Grace and Sammy Sosa, and he was considered a quiet Cub who didn’t give great sound bites for TV or controversial quotes for the print media.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
29 July 2025
No longer are the great and the good moving through a gauntlet of photographers at a speed of their choosing, tossing off a sound bite here or there before high-tailing.
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