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...Moveable Feast” and “Metamorphosis.” Besides flagging important themes for the reader, the titles make up a required reading list more expansive than an average English class. Pessl transforms nouns to verbs (“triple-lutzed”, “couch potatoed”), recites “Casablanca” and German poetry, and boasts an impressive and oft-quoted literary collection; she peppers the text with nods to real historical heroes (Winston Churchill) and imagined ones (“the late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist...
...have it automatically downloaded at home, and if you plan to watch a movie just once, you can pay as little as $1.99 to rent it. Netflix users make long movie wish lists, and if downloading those films is as easy as getting them by mail, America's couch potatoes should be thrilled. WHAT'S NOT You can't rent movies or burn them to DVDs. So far, just 75 movies are available, all from Disney studios, and downloads lack DVDs' bonus features. Amazon's films require special software, and you can't watch them on an iPod...
Then came Oprah's couch. Then came Brooke Shields and South Park. Most damaging, then came underperforming movies and Paramount's decision to break off its relationship with him. And Suri became a metaphor for everything the public suddenly found suspicious about him. Keeping her unseen, Cruise was pretending that he was still Untouchable...
...might as well have busted out some French or broken into song. George Bush was putting the country on the couch. Republicans and Democrats alike flashed back to Jimmy Carter's assertion in July 1979 that the country was suffering "a crisis of confidence." Only political junkies know that Carter never actually used the word malaise. And only the most astute historian remembers that he got an initial bounce in the polls. In the long run, though, the speech was judged a disaster and set the stage for Ronald Reagan to use sunny optimism to run Carter out of town...
...Cruise's transgressions were more boyish, and less goyish, than Gibson's. The star formerly known as Tom Terrific was guilty only of behaving like a lovesick cockaloony on TV by trampolining on Oprah's couch and trumpeting his love for Katie Holmes, of slamming Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressive medicine after giving birth, and of proselytizing too strenuously for that non-religion he belongs to, the Church of Scientology. All this falls into the severely goofy range but stops somewhere short of actionable...