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...October 30, 1938. A Sunday night. About 8 p.m. You're sitting in your living room. Possibly in an easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some...
...direction already. It could have decided to focus solely on infrastructural reductions, throwing its money at LEED certifications and other building improvements. This strategy could probably succeed. Harvard is old, its buildings and energy sources are relatively inefficient, and there is no shortage of potential structural improvements that would dial back our impact...
There are signs of the show the title sequence promises in Episodes 4 and 5, which dial down the heavy-handedness (trusting the audience to get, say, the gay-prejudice allegory without showing GOD HATES FANGS signs) and explore more intriguing corners of undead life (such as the curse of seeing your own mortal children grow old and die). As it happens, they're the work of writers other than Ball. Maybe what this Blood needs most is a transfusion...
...villas, naturally, are designed for high-seclusion romance. You can't see or hear your neighbors and can rest assured that your dedicated "villa host," or butler, only appears when you dial for him (his telephone number is saved in a cell phone presented to you upon check...
When you pick up a book titled The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Dial; 277 pages) by Mary Ann Shaffer and (and!) Annie Barrows, you know you're in for some quirk. It's just not immediately clear which kind. The book's heroine is a single woman in her early 30s. Her name is Juliet Ashton, and she is a journalist. The year is 1946. Juliet lives in London, a city from which the pall of World War II has not yet lifted. The rubble is still being cleared, the dead identified, the delicacies rationed...