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...That’s all I do... in life.” In Jay’s pause there is more than good comic timing—there is the burden of truth. He is a grown man who plays with cards. This isn’t exactly an adult profession, and the era of the great card sharks has long since vanished...
...could benefit from it. It simply demands that we focus our efforts on supporting ethically sound means to obtain the ends we desire. Research on the possible medical uses of stem cells is still in its inchoate stages, and there are a number of avenues open for exploration. Adult stem cells and placental stem cells, which can be obtained without killing a human being, also have great potential for use in medical treatments. Rather than using government money to support research which kills some human beings in an attempt to lessen the sufferings of others, let us use that money...
...enter Greenough 212 is to forget the world of classes, tests, and adult responsibilities. There are no textbooks or backpacks on the floor; there is no trash waiting to be taken out. Pink tulle material decorates the door handle. Songs from Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” float from a laptop, which rests on a desk wrapped entirely in pink crepe paper. Colored Christmas tree lights adorned with sparkly pieces of candy line the molding and the drawers. Colorful flower pots sit in the corner, next to a purple parasol. The floor lamp...
...quirky, colorful world of Spirited Away is indeed a break from the dark, dangerous universe of his last film, Princess Mononoke. Though dazzling, the adult-targeted Mononoke was perhaps an unfortunate choice for his first U.S.-wide release. American critics gushed over the story of giant wolves and boars and a girl raised among them who battle humans threatening the wilderness. But it alarmed and baffled parents who with their tots make up most of the U.S. animation audience. Despite voice-overs by the likes of Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Billy Crudup and the marketing might of Miramax...
...After so long grief, such nativity!” from Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors—is a fitting testament to both Fox’s past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox’s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters in the library at Yaddo, the writers’ colony in upstate New York. Franzen pushed for its reissue, calling it “obviously superior...