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  • Trow them in jail until they read the other copy of the court paper and told them they could leave with the kids.

    Ontario Ombudsman : Law is Cool 2009

  • Mei Trow used modern police forensic techniques, including psychological and geographical profiling, to identify Robert Mann, a morgue attendant, as the killer.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Jack the Ripper's Identity Finally Uncovered? 2009

  • The vacuum created by the loss of what Trow called “middle distance” institutions was quickly filled.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • In 1980, alarmed at what he felt television was doing to American life, George W. S. Trow published one of the most prophetic essays about the direction of what was then called the Media Age.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • Trow doesn't deal with it in his ode to Ike, My Pilgrim's Progress, though it's possible I may have overlooked a passage (the book isn't indexed).

    Pink Slips and Soupy Rain: The Last Crummy Christmas of the Bush Era: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • “It is in this space,” Trow wrote, “that celebrities dance.”

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • Finely, hers freind sez Trow owt teh floofy bunnie sliplers!

    This is the image of himself - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • The breaking down of institutions that Trow was commenting upon, places where face-to-face interaction was at a premium, has only been speeded up by the Internet.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • "George WS Trow, a writer and media critic known for his biting lamentations over what he saw as the twilight of culture in late-20th-century America, was found dead on Nov 24 in his apartment in Naples, Italy," writes Margalit Fox.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/4. 2006

  • This one's via Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay, who writes, "In a time when our ability to choose when to view, download, buy or rent the latest blockbuster is a major topic of debate, I'm going to be a bit old school and remember Trow and his finally melancholic work," and points to an excerpt from the classic essay in the New Yorker.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/4. 2006

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