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...humble bathtub companions have suddenly become a hit on the charity fund-raising circuit. Participants in the derbies typically donate $5 to adopt a duck, which has a number printed on its bottom. The rubber duckies are dumped en masse into the water; as they float downriver across the finish line, a special duck trap scoops up the winners...
Madonna can get away with this because she knows how to draw on her reserves of mystery without tapping them out. Other performers have no mystery at all, but that -- at least in the short term -- seems to be no problem. An all- female group called En Vogue looks to have lifted its name from the same putative dance craze from which Madonna borrowed the title of her most recent hit single. They also sing a kind of wax-slick dance music that seems less written than cloned. Nevertheless, they have a No. 5 hit of their own, Hold...
Fulghum's sons live in the neighborhood, and in order to stay in shape, two generations frequently go jogging in a nearby park. En route, readers hail the shaggy, benign figure, and he is often asked for advice. He rarely breaks step as he shouts his inarguable credo: "Life is so . . . unique! Trees, people, dogs, cats, comedy, love . . . don't miss it!" The springy, affirmative footsteps clatter like laughter as they echo down the path. The Rev. Feelgood is off in pursuit of another elusive truth...
...this why Woody Allen might avoid roller coasters? Does Yo Yo Ma get carsick in a limo en route to the concert? That's not the point, according to Herrmann. With H.B.D.I. results in hand, a manager can select people with different ways of learning, who together will form "a composite whole brain," thus working more efficiently, and creatively...
...Growing economic polarization, she argues, has made the professional class, which is inherently insecure, more smug and selfish. Much of her evidence involves incidental, sometimes lighthearted perceptions about how this uneasiness reveals itself. To escape association with a shrinking middle class, yuppies have learned to choose the baby bass en croute over the chef's salad, Italian knit sweaters over flannel shirts, running over basketball and handcrafted cabinets over mass-produced maple...