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...brave new world that has such people...
Surprisingly, the answer seems to be no. In America displays Sontag in a relaxed, pleasure-seeking mode, guiding her characters through a long travelogue in time, specifically the beginnings of the gilded age in the brave new world. Here are sumptuous theaters in Manhattan and hotels in San Francisco; a journey 1,900 feet down into a silver mine in Virginia City, Nev.; cameo appearances by such luminaries as Henry James and Edwin Booth...
...group plans to return every day to hand out fliers with pictures of the geese that denounce the "secret extermination" of "these famously brave animals...
...wedges to unearth the most esoteric challenges of Millennium Trivial Pursuit, and stalked the most learned professors that grace the History Department here at Harvard. Many evaded the spotlight, claiming alleged "deadlines" and pleading the fifth, all the while reeking of self-doubt and insecurity. Fortunately, though, three brave souls came forth, but only after FM resorted to hunting down victims at the Xerox machine in the jungle of Robinson Hall...
...almost brave of Michael Douglas, 55, to play a college professor who looks his age--and feels it. After a decade or so as the suave (or slimy) manipulator dodging a comeuppance from a strong (or psychotic) woman, Douglas renounces sexual energy and latches on to a kind of emotional ennui. In Wonder Boys he's unshaven, bespectacled Grady Tripp, who wrote an acclaimed novel years ago but has been marking time ever since. While working on his next book (he's up to page 2,613), he teaches the creative writing he may no longer be capable...