What on Earth was he thinking?
I’ve experienced run-on sentences before, but not usually in newspapers. Much less, the New York Times. Less still as the first “sentence” of a story! Observe:
What on earth was he thinking, Siegfried & Roy’s 7-year-old white Siberian tiger, Montecore, sequestered now ‘’in its usual quarters,’’ as one report phrased it, at the Mirage hotel in Las Vegas, his future as an entertainer, indeed as a tiger, in serious question.
Somebody has a ways to go before they’ll be writing front page copy.
If you’re so inclined, you can read the rest of the story here.