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...reasonable enough to speculate, I think, that the President was watching what he ate with the thought that he didn't want his vacation on Martha's Vineyard to inspire a lot of Save-the-Whale jokes on late-night television. He was, in fact, photographed emerging from the surf, and he looked nothing at all like William Howard Taft...
...British aristocracy, she fidgeted constantly, pulling at various parts of her white sequined dress as a child might. At a dinner following the opera, she walked, alone, down a huge winding staircase without ever looking at her feet, so we knew she was a princess. But at dinner she ate like your sister, tearing into her meal with a kind of wanton delight, turning aside her lady-in-waiting's insistence that it was time to be leaving with the flat observation that dessert hadn't come yet. There are those who will see in this scene the evidence...
...richly textured life. The "first black woman" wherever she went--prep school, Radcliffe, a tony law firm--Parker deftly mines the universal in experiences that bear both the good fortune and freight of a privileged birthright. Her warm evocation of her childhood in Durham, N.C., where she ate several dinners each day to satisfy the neighbors who beckoned, "Gwennie Mac, come on in," makes you hunger for a time when children were everyone's responsibility...
...July 3, while camping with her family in New Mexico, 12-year-old Nicole Schlegelmilch ate a bad burger. Six days later she was in an emergency room back home in Denver, cramping, dehydrated and passing blood. By July 11, as she began to recover, doctors still wondered just what...
...life usually wasn't too hard in Movie Land, and indeed it was often quite a pleasure; I ate well, stayed cool, did my job. The fact that I could have conversations about something other than concentrations, final clubs or rooming situations was a welcome relief. I could survive outside the bubble of Harvard land in the real world, even if it was within the bubble of Hollywood...