Word: ducking
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What an odd duck to have legs, as Madison Avenue puts it when a product moves briskly. The two-volume set, entitled The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, has had steady sales and is going into a third printing, which for a book this size and cost is unusual. It has been reviewed favorably all over the block. David Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer-prizewinning historian, calls it "the most remarkable diary ever published by an American." The thing puts people in mind of Pepys, Proust, Rousseau, all manner of citadels of personal penmanship. There is movie talk...
...static. But because the theater is ultimately a medium of language, of narrative, a skilled playwright can find in just such a conversation all the action an audience needs. The result can be poignant and elegiac, like David Storey's Home, or salty and burlesque, like David Mamet's Duck Variations, or full of rage and silences, like many of Beckett's dramas...
...know what's going to hit you. Take Russell Crowe, who last week chucked a telephone in the face of a hotel concierge and was arrested for assault. Though he apologized on national TV, Crowe joined the list of hot-tempered famous folks around whom it's wise to duck. Can you match the celeb with the everyday item turned dangerous in his or her hands? --By Jeninne Lee-St. John...
...related accessories is suddenly revving up. Bentley is introducing the superexclusive Breitling Mulliner Tourbillon watch. For the off-roader, Hummer has collaborated with TechnoMarine on the XS Magnum Square, complete with a tire-tread strap, left. And for Mini owners, who really have to pack light, Mandarina Duck has introduced a set of luggage designed to fit snugly in the compact trunk...
...related accessories is suddenly revving up. Bentley is introducing the superexclusive Breitling Mulliner Tourbillon watch. For the off-roader, Hummer has collaborated with TechnoMarine on the XS Magnum Square, complete with a tire-tread strap, left. And for Mini owners, who really have to pack light, Mandarina Duck has introduced a set of luggage designed to fit snugly in the compact trunk. - By Betsy Kroll