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Most of Wolff's characters have lifestyles, not lives. Ted, Mitch and Bliss celebrate Helen's 30th birthday with cocaine, love circles and chatter like "I was into a serious good-works routine back then. I wanted to be a saint," and "I used to paralegal with this guy in the city and he decided that he couldn't live without some girl he was seeing." The story is called Leviathan, and it concludes with a Me-generation version of Moby Dick, an insipid recollection of a California whale watch."'He was a monster,' Helen said. 'I mean that...
...give a particularly vivid focus to demonstrations against the war on Iraq and against the U.S. government’s revolting class-based treatment of its enlisted personnel,” said John Womack Jr. ’59, an outspoken faculty critic of U.S. foreign policy, who is Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics...
...style interior of this bar and supper club, tel: (61-2) 9363 0555, makes it good for intimate get-togethers and flamboyant parties alike, while the Double Bay location attracts Sydney's shovers and makers by the score. Mediterranean-influenced mains are priced from about $25. Afterward, find postprandial bliss in the hot pink cigar lounge...
Maybe not. In fact, we should all be as unhealthy as Kelly Bliss. Her blood pressure is often as low as 100/50. Her cholesterol and blood sugar are normal. When she lies on her back, she can pull her leg to her face and touch her nose--while barely bending her knee. Can you? Oh, yes, and while most Americans exercise grudgingly, if at all, Bliss never misses a day, walking 10 to 20 miles a week and teaching an aerobics class at a local church. "You look at me in a leotard," she says. "I'm a cute little...
...culture that fetishizes slimness, the idea of being fat and happy raises eyebrows. The idea of being fat and fit is nothing short of apostasy. Yet Bliss is both--and she's not alone...