In The Guardian, Marina Hyde observed that Christian Horner, the boss of Formula One’s Red Bull racing team, is enmeshed in a tawdry scandal: “It’s all very Keeping Up With the Carkrashians.” (Debbie Landis, Garrison, N.Y.)
I occasionally use this section of the newsletter to showcase an especially deft or witty headline, and Britain’s Daily Star recently had one, pertinent to an article about the top Kellogg’s executive advising financially struggling people to have cereal for dinner: “Let Them Eat Flakes.” (Alex Johnson, Santa Monica, Calif.)
In The Times, Pete Wells used his review of the restaurant Noksu to note the absurdity of many diners’ timidity and fealty: “Each course was served with precise instructions on how to transport it from plate to mouth. Not that I blame the servers. When diners at restaurants like this aren’t given any instructions, they become so confused they’ll ask what ‘chef recommends.’ Seeing a restaurant full of grown adults waiting for permission to eat with a spoon really makes you wonder how it is that humans haven’t died out yet.” (Pat Olski, River Edge, N.J., and Ellen Chuse, Brooklyn, among others)
Also in The Times, Jason Zinoman described the particular physicality in the stand-up comedy performances of Richard Lewis, who died last week: “To say he talked with his hands seems insufficient. His whole body never shut up.” (Jack O’Brien, East Islip, N.Y.)
Jonah Weiner noted the emergence of “a late-period portrait of Miles Davis” that recently spread across the internet and showed him to be ahead of his time regarding a current fashion trend: “The focal point is Davis’s enormous pants. They are tan, with deep pleats and a towering rise, and they pool behind the tongues of his white loafers like tidal waves converging on a couple of dinghies. They are large but not structureless — they echo and expand on his stance with a graceful excess, the way a sail echoes and expands on the wind. They look tremendously, gorgeously, inspiringly stupid.” (Karen O’Kain, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Harry Newman, Austin, Texas, among others)