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Emotional intimacy came late to Carson as well. Lear's account delicately suggests that Carson discovered great passion only at 46, and with a married woman at that. Carson poured a lifetime's pent-up feelings into her letters and encounters with Dorothy Freeman, an amateur naturalist and Maine neighbor, who became her "white hyacinth for the soul." The two women recognized that, as Carson wrote, "our brand of 'craziness' would be a little hard for anyone but us to understand." Indeed, as Carson's cancer intensified, Freeman was sufficiently worried about the "implication" of their letters to beg Carson...
Kodak's bind is that lowering prices will hurt its most profitable business. Kodak's piece of the U.S. market for amateur film for consumers is estimated to have brought in $3.4 billion in revenues last year at deep green profit margins of 70%. But if it doesn't do something, its market share will continue to erode. From a near monopoly position in the U.S., it now has less than 75%. Its market share in August of this year compared with the previous year dropped a staggering 5 points...
...went on foot to the rue Chabannais, where his car was parked across the street from a bar called Champmesle. The Champmesle is a lesbian bar, where, despite his gender, Paul was a regular customer. The burly 41-year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years...
...musical attraction of "Semi-Charmed Life" is the scat section of the chorus-an easy sing-along that gives permission to even the most tone deaf amateur to join in (believe me, I know!). Along with this bebop blast, the chorus proclaims "I want something else, to get me through this...semi-charmed kind of life." Who better to identify with this mantra than the supposedly characteristic bored youth generation? Well, I have no answer for that, but I can say that a handful of suburban kids working jobs for spending money and wasting time in search of fun would...
Gibson may not have thought herself a winner. Her life meandered after she gave up amateur tennis in 1958. Her marriage failed. Her illness has all but robbed her of speech. All the blinds are lowered at her home. But through a gap, the doorbell brings a momentary glimpse of a tall figure in khakis, refusing reply and vanishing into darkness. A certain unintended wistfulness haunts the title of her autobiography, I Always Wanted to Be Somebody. She was. But in East Orange, there is a woman who lives in an apartment whom nobody sees. She used to be somebody...