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...windows, sharing our hopes and dreams about how much our new children would love us, of how we could steer them away from certain types of drugs that they might have too much fun with and toward those cosmetic procedures that would flatter their looks. "Imagine," Lori dreamed aloud one night. "Knowing what seasons your colors are before you're even born! Lucky, lucky children...
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING REFRESHING about the idea of plunging a stake into the eye of the Cyclops. And when one hears this gory little episode read aloud, it only gets better, as was made duly clear by the epic's latest translator, Robert Fagles, and theater veterans Jason Robards and Kathryn Walker in "An Evening's 'Odyssey.'" The performance of this modern translation at once reinvigorated an already bracing classic and tapped into the ageless appeal of story-telling, of re-inventing the tale on the spot...
...year for work that remains a mystery. Next, at the suggestion of a Democratic fund raiser, the Los Angeles Airport Commission paid him $8,250 a month to lobby the Transportation Department. These were lucky breaks for a lawyer facing possible criminal charges. Republicans have wondered aloud whether these jobs were part of a "hush-money" campaign directed by the White House to keep Hubbell happy and dissuade him from telling investigators what he knows about the Whitewater affair. Now it seems that independent counsel Kenneth Starr wonders the same thing...
...interview, Forman wondered aloud about the audience's reception of "Larry Flynt." And what are Forman's own feelings toward Larry Flynt the man? "I did not expect to like Larry Flynt," said Forman, "but I could not help but find him very charming. But, as Alfred Hitchcock said, 'the villain has to be charming. Otherwise, he is not interesting...
...doesn't really matter, it's not like you're asking me whether you should run out into the middle of the highway, it's just a decision about your concentration," exclaimed an assistant professor in the economics department as I sat in his office sometime last year wondering aloud whether I truly belonged in economics. I had suggested that maybe I should give up economics after a couple of mediocre academic experiences and switch to social anthropology, a field which sounded interesting at the time but about which I knew absolutely nothing...