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...home at the State House. I spend much of my day tracking and researching legislation and have developed a strange fascination for the General Laws of Massachusetts. This spring, I never would have believed that reading laws on subjects ranging from raffles to operating a motor vehicle while wearing flip-flops could actually be interesting. Yet, now I find myself sitting at the dinner table, telling my family about laws that I never knew existed...
...banker braves the brutal terrain of Park Avenue in a vehicle built for climbing sand dunes under enemy fire. A claims adjuster clambers aboard a car designed to haul caribou carcasses, so he can pick up his wife's fuchsias at the suburban garden center. Did the old man flip his jeep on Omaha Beach? Then his son will have a Jeep too, to drop off the kids at the multiplex. Vroom-vroom...
...trickery" in getting him to check into the Sierra Tucson drug-rehab center in Arizona last August. "I was there for one day and came home. I found that it took me to get myself together, instead of some program." Alluding to his new film, he says, "The flip side to having nothing to lose is having something to gain. I'm there--I'm getting there. I'm growing up. I'm happy as I'm going...
...that moment, "I believe my brother did a flip in heaven," said Donald a few minutes later, but he wasn't feeling so pleased. After 16 years of waiting, he said, "justice was not done tonight. There is no such thing as closure," he mused. "I would rather have had [Hays] in a ring one-on-one for 15 rounds and whipped him the way he whipped my brother...
...heart of the play is the sparring between Wilde (Michael Emerson) and his courtroom antagonists. The flip, willfully perverse Wildean wit suffered the rude shock of having to defend itself under pitiless legal questioning. Asked if something he has written is true, Wilde replies, "I rarely think anything I write is true." He was a victim, of course, of Victorian prudery but also of the perennial clash between the aesthetic and the moral, the realm of art and the realm of life. Wilde realizes too late that it's an unfair fight. "One says things flippantly," he apologizes wanly...