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...plays his rebellious hero's story for laughs. But serious matters begin to tax Sterling's sense of humor. His parents have sent money to a young woman in Hong Kong so she can fly to the U.S. and become his bride. His father is ill, perhaps dying. And Bliss, his American girlfriend who is studying dentistry in Iowa, announces that she is pregnant with their child. Beset on all sides, Sterling says, "I worry I have lost my will to cook...
Referring to the Golden Age of the Latin American caudillo, Ryszard Kapuscinski wrote that "stadiums play a double role: in peacetime they are sports venues; in war they turn into concentration camps." Well, in the future, in the synergistic bliss of the globalized economy, stadiums and arenas will simply turn into malls and food courts. The live event--the game itself--will become, at best, a point-of-purchase display. Already, most people attending a basketball game rarely glance at the live action. They watch the Jumbotron screens cantilevered above the court or the monitors mounted in the arena...
WYNONNA JUDD announced this week that she has a new boyfriend: her bodyguard. Is long-term bliss in the cards...
...travel guides and 18 map guides, available in bookstores nationwide. Published by St. Martin's Press, Let's Go: Europe has grown to a glossy 992-page behemoth. Hundreds of applications for summer jobs pour in each spring, as Harvard's would-be Tom Ripleys plan summers of bliss on the Continent. But casual dress and a torrent of daiquiris give way to grueling work, internal struggles, marijuana brownies, la cucuracha! and the Let's Go libido. So the staffers tell FM. Despite the tangles that come from the dubious mixing of business with undergraduate pleasure, Let's Go writers...
...ironic that an institution that was established in part for the study of garden scholarship and as the repository of Bliss' unique collection of rare horticultural and historic garden books should be involved in the possible destruction of one of the country's finest gardens...