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...presumption that people were interested in how other people were doing and the preemptive sneer of bad irony didn’t have a place,” says Jedediah Purdy `97, author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today and another upcoming zeitgest-chaser about globalization. Purdy has thought a bit about irony, and he has thought it through a bit more than the people who announced its demise. Initial shock meant parody was paralyzed, but only temporarily...
Despite evidence that eating proteins cooked at high temperatures can cause cancer in animals, the popularity of barbecuing has not waned. One reason may be that the grill bill of fare is no longer simply meat with a meat chaser. The Kansas City pitmaster and the Texas brisket king are alive, well and perfecting their marinades and slow-cooking techniques. But the backyard griller can now prepare every part of the meal on his (and it is still mostly his) grill, from breakfast to dessert. "The barbecue moved from the center of the plate to the outside," says cookbook author...
...Perignon at Roppongi's Kingyo. Head to Chianti at Iikura for an espresso chaser but end up on the roof of the adjacent building, pero-pero guri-guri with the Tokyo Tower in the back. Her screaming fills the air. Pull out moist wipes from the bag and clean...
...things about being at Stanford," he says. "I was sort of a lower-tier athlete." One college roommate, Yves Zinggeler, remembers that Woods "was a humorous guy who liked to have fun and go out on weekends"; he dated a couple of women, but "he wasn't a skirt chaser." He watched The Simpsons religiously and cued up videotapes of PGA tournaments. He made his bed, of course; but as a sophomore, when Tiger lived in a suite with Zinggeler and four other students, "he would get McDonald's and leave the remnants lying around all the time." And Tiger...
...Shearer ladles blame and caustic wit on the President, his G.O.P. posse and the moralizing TV newsies with their "hideously bad acting." It's a smart challenge to lazy thinking. Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism. Hemlock, anyone...