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After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again playing the role as the country's flagship theater of the absurd. ROY KOMOTO South Pasadena, Calif...
...After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again the country's flagship theater of the absurd. Roy Komoto South Pasadena...
...Them in the Eye," a recollection of every encounter he's ever had with a vagrant. Of the 25 or so contributors, others include Renee French, and Marc Bell, author of "Shrimpy and Paul" (see review) whose sense of color is revealed as equal to his delightful sense of absurd humor. Huge, kaleidoscopic and indulgent, "Kramer's Ergot" number four is like a jawbreaker for your...
...Softening the Blow Charles Krauthammer's "A Doctor's Duty," on the failed attempt to separate the conjoined Bijani twins [July 21], asserted that medically assisted suicide causes us to embark on a slippery slope. How absurd! Krauthammer failed to see the big picture, in which death is simply part of life. Rusty van Druten Gauteng, South Africa...
...need to feel as though you can share all your concerns with your physician, no matter how absurd you might think they are. "Some of those imagined possibilities are so frightening that people feel embarrassed to share them," says Cope. "Your thoughts could run like this: This is probably only a cold; I hope it's not pneumonia; I sure hope I haven't got leukemia." If you don't share these fears with your doctor--and give him or her a chance to rule out worst-case scenarios--you may continue to have nagging doubts about both the diagnosis...