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Even Hollywood understands this. The movie bosses -- transplanted Easterners, many of them -- know that Los Angeles is no city, just a desert suburb with lawn sprinklers, a Disneyland where all the rides are bumper cars, where you can smell a man's exhaust fumes but not his breath on the back of your neck. They may figure, too, that old-city competition and corruption are the best metaphor for their mode of doing business. So in between crafting fantasies of L.A. dolce vita, they make occasional fantasies about the towns they left behind...
From the age of eight, when her first poem was printed in the Boston Herald, Plath began awaiting the mailman with baited breath, her talent perpetually on trial. Her persistence through 10 years of New Yorker rejection slips was finally rewarded. Soon after accepting two poems, the New Yorker offered her a first-reading contract...
...crushing pressure was only occasionally broken by Minkus and Uustal, with help from sophomores Betsy Miller and Laura Flynn. Short drives allowed the defense to catch its breath...
Yesterday, a day for baseball to catch its breath, both the Braves and Dodgers rested. Several of the Braves played golf...
...towers, they can represent "six candles, a menorah, six towers of spirit, six million Jews, six pillars of breath and six chambers of gas," Saitowitz said...