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...casual, repeated use of the word a__hole-spelled out in full-really necessary? Thousands of old-fashioned parents have a bar of soap waiting with Cullen's name on it. Rob Reynolds, Seattle...
...York Times assigned Ifill to cover the Clinton presidency, Imus remarked, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." As far as Imus is concerned, a black woman like Ifill should be emptying the President's trash cans, not interviewing him. That casual slander reminded me of an e-mail I once received from a reader who asserted his view of a black woman's proper place. "I have floors that need to be mopped," he said, and--more crudely than I can dare repeat--a sexual organ that needed to be serviced...
Even men who cannot afford couture prices want to look more like Daniel Craig or Sean (Diddy) Combs than a casual-Friday holdover from the 1990s. "People want to dress up now," says Jarret Kerman, director of clothing at Ermenegildo Zegna Couture. "Our best-selling suits are in dark, dressy fabrics." He adds that Zegna Couture, with the price of an average suit running from $3,200 to $4,000, has been growing exponentially in the past few seasons, its wholesale business quadrupling in the past year...
...casual, repeated use of the word a__hole - spelled out in full - really necessary? Thousands of old-fashioned parents have a bar of soap waiting with Cullen's name on it. Rob Reynolds, SEATTLE...
...attempting to alleviate their guilt and give them the tools to avoid feeling excluded from the book-reading community.While I’m skeptical of the logic of a book that argues against reading, Bayard is onto something. Why do we feel the need to fake it in casual conversation? The idea that there is a canon of great literature that one must read in order to be cultured is daunting and unrealistic.Bayard provides a number of tips for talking about the canon without reading it: generalize about the author, use the book to talk about your personal experiences...