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This time he's Nicholas Van Orton, super-rich investment banker, too busy to pay attention to his ex-wife--"She married a pediatrician or a gynecologist, or a pediatric gynecologist"--and too stuffy to bond with his rakehell brother Conrad (Sean Penn). As a birthday present, Conrad gives Nick a card for CRS, Consumer Recreation Services, an outfit that devises elaborate, personalized games for select clients. And now Nick is the lucky--or doomed--fellow chosen to play. Nick...
...also donated more than 700 books from the couple's private collection including rare books by famous authors, including Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence...
...some sleep now that both the House and Senate have overwhelmingly passed a stripped-down, White House-friendly version of the disaster relief bill, leaving Republicans to count their dead after yet another crushing public relations defeat at the hands of the Democratic minority. Said an exultant Kent Conrad, a Democrat from hard-hit North Dakota, of the bill that will provide $5.6 billion in aid for victims of disasters in 35 states: "Many of us wondered if this day was going to come, and here it is." Thousands of families bereft by flood damage can only echo his relief...
Which reminds me: Spend some portion of each day studying beauty, in any form. Especially study the line, be it in Shakespeare or Conrad, or in a song by Louis or Ella, or in a drawing by Jules Feiffer or Chuck Jones. The line is the basic unit of beauty...
...long event, which includes an evening concert, features keynote speaker Minister Conrad Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and a variety of panel discussions...