If Gallant sometimes achieves the same high notes that great reporting does, her less-successful stories resemble the more meandering old New Yorker human-interest profiles, in which a person's fleeting thoughts, neurotic habits, and random memories are woven into a pattering portrait.
Gallants less successful stories are similar to the old New Yorker profiles.
Human interest profiling isn't something you would ever find in the New Yorker.
The dogs are running outdoors.
A women and her old ladie friends standing on the bench.
Everything needs to update and get with the times.
A man is doing acrobatic stunts.
Men digging.
A male is on a snowboard.