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Lynn Loring, a flight attendant for American Airlines, has been coming to Paris for 18 years, and at times when the dollar was strong, she says, "All I did was shop." But last week, walking around the Galeries Lafayette department store, she was doing more looking than buying. The reason: the dollar has been sliding against the euro, and that's making everything much more expensive for her. "I'm so depressed," she says. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...steers, riding in a rodeo, dancing at a hoedown and singing by the campfire ("Oh, Buckamoo girls, won't you come out tonight, and dance by the light of the moooooon?"). Kelley's lively rhymes and Curry's comically stylized paintings evoke the fun and flavor of daydreams. A flight of sublime silliness...
...instead. The reward for the journey? A new awareness of natural phonomena one might never notice if these images weren’t so exquisitely captured, mounted, and brought together. After seeing Alex MacLean’s aerial shots, I was motivated to whip out my Nikon on my flight home for Thanksgiving break. Particularly striking were two adjacent photos taken in 2005, one titled “Hillside Preserve” and the other “Settlement.” The latter depicts the beginning of a process of development, with just a rectangle of construction interrupting...
LOGAN AIRPORT—Among the obligatory Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, and John Grisham offerings, I discovered these holiday in-flight gems...
...year-old son’s private school, where an ad hoc committee is formed with the goal of figuring out a way for the children to fly on stage. The various suggestions, which include step ladders (“That won’t give the illusion of flight. That’ll give the illusion of their being housepainters.”) and parents dressed in black lifting the children (“Emma can’t deal with clowns at birthday parties, much less with ninja assaults.”) are thoroughly enjoyable to read...