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...charm of the protagonists makes them entirely relatable to the college audience; Jane and Elizabeth’s bedtime talk about Jane’s coy flirtation with Mr. Bingley is exactly of the same tone as the conversations my roommate and I share from top and bottom bunk, albeit with slightly different syntax. Anyone who missed the reading for Reid Professor of English and American Literature Phillip J. Fisher’s English 157, “The Classic Phase of the Novel,” can skip the SparkNotes and use this film as a reliable source...
...ANYBODY COULD HAVE been prepared for what happened to Joan Didion, it should have been Joan Didion. At 70, she is the author of five novels and seven works of nonfiction, all of which are distinguished by enormous intellectual force, an impatience with sentimentality and a general intolerance for bunk. Didion is one of the great clear thinkers and dry-eyed observers of her generation. When people talk about somebody being a tough customer, Didion is the kind of person they're talking about...
...Orleans’ main stretch, where, before Hurricane Katrina drowned the city, Mardi Gras beads were available year-round and brightly lit bars served frozen cocktails from spinning machines, 7-Eleven-style. But the vomiting was all courtesy of an anonymous roommate they’d met in the bunk beds of their hostel, a place called India House. They shrugged it off, washed their faces, and got into the Volvo...
...forcing their way in through the front door with a Haligan, a classic fireman's tool that resembles a crowbar with various edges at different angles. "Anybody here?" Inside, the ceiling and roof rafters and insulation are piled on the bed and exercise bike in one bedroom, and the bunk beds in another. But no people...
...family could fly to Boston. The local fire department brought an ambulance for Yolanda's mother, who has since been placed in a nursing home nearby. "The firemen were arguing over who got to volunteer," says King. A day later, the fire fighters came back with brand-new bunk beds for the kids...