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To the persons down voting, did you manage to read the piece till the end? Here are example of time wasted to make you stay longer on the article page or to fi
by greatgib 5y ago
To the persons down voting, did you manage to read the piece till the end?
Here are example of time wasted to make you stay longer on the article page or to fill empty space:
"When I arrived at his eighth-floor office, overlooking the sprawling Belgian capital, he poured himself a cup while staring down at Molenbeek, which has been called by its own mayor “a fertile ground for terrorism.”"
"Belgian police first established a Bureau of Art and Antiques in 1988. Thirteen years later, when Belgium reorganized its law enforcement agencies, the unit became part of the country’s federal police force and was renamed Section Art"
"he recalled the investigation from behind his tidy desk, next to a table piled high with old case files. He wore gray slacks, a short-sleeve button-up, and the scuffed black dress shoes favored by detectives and those who play them on TV. His face served as its own good-cop-bad-cop routine: friendly, disarming smile; penetrating blue eyes."
" When Archer and his partner delivered the recovered paintings to Lorca’s daughter in Brussels, Verhaegen surprised his FBI colleagues with a special gift. “He grows his own grapes and makes his own wine,” Archer said. “We enjoyed the bottle thoroughly.”
- kthejoker2 5y agoYep, heaven forbid the writer actually writes instead of just spitting out a Buzzfeed listicle ("8 Famous Artists You Didn't Know Supported Terrorism") de gustibus non est disputandum and all, but magazine writing has been ever thus, from Thoreau to Hemingway, Mailer to Wolfe.