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...actually relieved by the threat of herpes. It's a good excuse for them to give up a life-style that had become unsatisfying." Yankelovich thinks the rise of herpes has revived feelings of guilt and the idea of disease as a form of moral punishment for promiscuity. Beneath the veneer of liberation, he says, "we have a residual guilt, and the idea that promiscuity breeds disease falls on prepared ears...
...first sign that quality dark chocolate is far more complex than the mass-produced Hershey’s Bars. Don’t let the bitterness force you to swallow too quickly; instead keep the chocolate in your mouth to sense all the other flavors that linger beneath, including a certain sweetness that is more rewarding than the pure candy of milk chocolate.OLIVESIf you must embrace the childish eating aesthetic, olives provide you with a convenient opportunity to put your fingers in your mouth. But to earn that privilege again, you must first eat the olive. Remembrances of cheap salads...
...making serious dramas from Oscar-winning directors. Anyone who worked in other kinds of movies ran into the wall of the Academy's genre snobbery. Crime movies (later known as film noir) had a dark glory, a stinging postwar fatalism, but flew under the Academy's radar and beneath its contempt. Of the hundreds of westerns in the '50s, some were superb, like Ford's The Searchers and Howard Hawks' Rio Bravo, but even those A-list directors could not interest Oscar in their oaters--zero nominations for those two great films-- or in John Wayne's towering performances...
...first times I walked into Memorial Hall, I looked up and saw the name of someone I knew quite well—someone whose papers I’d read, whose death I knew all about,” said Faust, who spoke beneath the seals of Harvard’s 11 schools that ring the Coop’s balcony...
...Indian magazines and newspapers may be full of surveys attesting to loosening sexual strictures among the swelling middle class, but scratch beneath the surface of liberated young India and you will often find the same old social conservatism - especially when it comes to marriage. "The thrust remains on preserving family and social stability and cohesion," says Delhi-based sociologist Patricia Oberoi. "Most youngsters are still committed to maintaining their social position through marriage... studies show that as many as 80% youngsters opine arranged marriages are best...