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...products indicate, men are making more of an effort to look after their skin. (Secretly helping yourself to big dollops of your wife's moisturizer in the bathroom cabinet? We thought so.) Cosmetic companies are meeting this rising demand with a bewildering choice of salves to soothe the masculine brow, so where to start? Here are five favorites that will help take the sting...
...tall young man scans the white sheets taped to the window, then briskly walks away. Another girl lingers, her brow furrowed as her eyes trail down the register. On the other side of the glass, a disappointed student collapses into an armchair, course guide in hand. “Do you think I should e-mail them? Do you think that would help?” he asks his friend, who looks doubtfully back at him. “I guess I’ll have to start all over again,” he mutters, leafing anxiously through...
...ambitions stripped away by domesticity, spirits and personalities quailed by marriage, energy suppressed and freedom thwarted by maternity—are trite contemporary fodder. But to give her credit, Cusk redeems these stale themes with exquisite language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does...
Elaborating on her artistic vision, Vincent argues that opera isn’t as high brow as it may seem...
...under a few feet of water, and to the north is the monastery of the Essenes at Qumran, where most of their Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Farther, toward Jericho, the mount in the wilderness where Satan tempted Christ. And in the distance to the south, the terrible brow of Masada, where 960 Jewish Zealots committed suicide rather than surrender to the besieging Romans in A.D. 73. Some Israeli army units now celebrate their graduation after basic training under a night sky ablaze with Hebrew characters that say MASADA SHALL NOT FALL AGAIN. Israelis live under constant strain. Graceful manners...