Word: boredly
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...various reasons--he says his parents ridiculed his desire to pursue acting instead of football--but being gay didn't help. And while Marcel-Keyes says many of her problems have "nothing to do with my sexuality," she has struggled with self-mutilation--at the retreat, her arms bore scars from shoulder to wrist...
During their time as co-masters, Andrews and his wife bore witness to the student unrest surrounding Vietnam, racial tension on campus, and the school’s transition to coeducation during the 1970s...
Hanks can't say if he has still more space yarns in him after this. He may try science fiction--a historically high-stakes genre in which filmmakers either succeed brilliantly or flame out spectacularly. But in an era of shrunken space programs peddling small-bore dreams, there's something to be said for keeping the torch burning...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Most writers are happy to achieve success in a single format, but such a career would bore gifted polymath Vikram Seth. The Indian-born author has already delighted readers with poetry, translations of Chinese verse, a book of travels through Tibet, a libretto and the monumental novel A Suitable Boy. This fall, Seth releases his latest foray into a new genre: a memoir titled Two Lives, which tells the true story of how his Indian granduncle Shanti fell in love with and married a Jewish-German woman after World War II. The book will...
...Orleans lore, a symbol of the city’s quirky decadence, a neon-lit mecca of shellfish, booze, and parties. But for the Big Easy’s poor, the city’s streets—far from Bourbon’s bar scene—bore a more gritty reality...