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Lest I assume the Cold War was completely over, I was happy to see that my quarterly letter from Radio Havana had arrived right on schedule. And, much to my delight, I still had the opportunity to win a trip to Havana...
Japanese sightseers, on the other hand, greet Harvard's scenic attractions with unrepressed delight. On a campus tour, they point excitedly at almost everything that catches their attention: At the buildings in the Yard. At the trees in the Yard. At the squirrels in the Yard. At you. This flurry of outstretched fingers is accompanied by the busy clicking of camera shutters...
...land of ice and ice cream and baseball and beach picnics and outdoor concerts, of freedom felt in the body itself." John Updike's celebration of a summer holiday omits one delight: reading John Updike. It can be experienced in the pages of Summer (Addison-Wesley; 252 pages; $35), a collection of seasonal bouquets by 37 writers including Mary Cantwell (To a City Breeze), Laurie Colwin (How to Avoid Grilling), Wallace Stevens (Sailing After Lunch) and Meg Wolitzer (The Summer Reading List). Herewith another summer reading list to beguile the hours spent in hammocks, grass and sand...
Amid the hype surrounding the forthcoming Tom Cruise $60 million race-car epic Days of Thunder is the widely reported claim that the film left Hollywood preview audiences gaga with delight. In fact, some early responses were so grumbly or apathetic that the producers decided to take the star and his car back to the speedway at Daytona to reshoot the ending. Two more racing shots were added. Such tinkering with big-ticket productions is not so unusual in these days of compulsive market research, but the timing for this one was unusual: the new ending was filmed just three...
...Rhode Island. He understands in retrospect that he was brainwashed into becoming a Khmer Rouge. Yet he also remembers how thrillingly fright and excitement mixed. He can still describe the sweaty terror before an attack, squatting in the reeds, trembling. Then the fear metabolized into adrenaline, enhanced by the delight of pumping an automatic rifle. "Sometimes," he says, "you enjoy yourself in battle...