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...aging will. Distinguishing herself from the founder of Ms. magazine, CHER, 55, asserted, "I'm just not gonna Gloria Steinem out and say, 'Oh, no, I'm thrilled.'" In an interview to air this week on ABC's Primetime Thursday, the singer turned actress turned disco diva rejects the blather about the glory of gathering wisdom and laugh lines: "I would love to lie, but I don't think there's anything good about it." Lest one snicker over her attempts to fight aging with nips and tucks, Cher sets the record straight: "I've had the same cheeks...
...obvious. No government official from a right-wing regime would ever be offered a Harvard position. No professor here would ever say it was “admirable” that a visiting academic had served under Augusto Pinochet in Chile, or Francisco Franco in Spain. No one would blather on about “the quality of a person’s scholarly work, not his or her politics,” if the politics in question were fascist...
There are two kinds of people who browse car magazines like "Car and Driver" or "Automobile:" Those who care about a car's specs - and those who care about its looks. If you're the former, if you really are fascinated by reading all that blather about gear ratios and bhp, you shouldn't be reading this column...
...section in the newspaper, do you look around first to make sure your spouse - and I mean your wife OR your husband - isn't looking? Of course not. You're there for the pictures, not the articles. And if you really care about cars enough to read all that blather about gear ratios and bhp, you probably shouldn't be reading this column...
Shapiro’s silly blather reminded me of a history lecture I once suffered through. The professor told the class that the student movement against the Vietnam war was little but a “replay of 19th-century romanticism” peopled by spoiled white rich kids who just couldn’t understand that there really are villains in the world. Well, perhaps the anti-war protesters in the Vietnam era were mostly drawn from the comfortable middle classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs...