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...Olympic organizers, watching the preparations with breath held in apprehension, this was the calm before the blizzard. There were a few contretemps: some Russians complained about the lack of fax machines in the Olympic Village, and the official Chinese news agency announced that the accommodations here set new Olympic records for discomfort. The International Olympic Committee provoked mumbles with its sudden threat to introduce blood testing, which it just as quickly dropped. Even official brochures treated the athletes like errant children: "Moving from one Village to another is of course possible -- if not recommended -- provided official permission is granted...
...think Marshall recognizes that the words do contain some kind of power. He reeled off some of the sayings for me--"KISS ME...LOVE ME..." paused, and then said something under his breath about how this phone call could get him arrested. The language of love is indeed risky, and on candy it can be downright dangerous. Maybe it's time to update the slogans. Marshall tells me that the candies were invented sometime around World War I. If any of the sayings in the current series are left over from that era--well, that was a while...
...love romance. I adore romantic movies, novels and plays. Whenever I watch or read a particularly cheesy, soul-wrenching, mushy scene, my heart tightens, I lose my breath, and my eyes begin to water. It's exhilarating...
Wexler credits her father, now 83 and still a practicing psychoanalyst in Los Angeles, with motivating her on the day that he told her about her mother's illness and discussed the fact that she was at risk as well. "Practically in the same breath," she recalls, "he said, 'And we're going to fight it.' " He informed Nancy and her sister that he had started a group dedicated to curing Huntington's and had begun organizing workshops at which scientists could plan their attack on the still mysterious cause of the disease. "It was really therapeutic," Nancy says...
...Magic and Loss, largely inspired by the death last year of Reed's friend, the superb songwriter Doc Pomus, uses spare instrumentation and simple language ("The same power that burned Hiroshima/ causing three-legged babies and death/ Shrunk to the size of a nickel/ to help him regain his breath") to stare down mortality and peek into the abyss. The title says it best. The subject is loss, but the music, dark and pitiless, is still magic...