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...comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly??s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only...
...final clubs at Harvard, it is the Fly??s grounds that most remind me of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” They are considerably smaller than Gatsby’s 40 acres to be sure, but there’s that blue garden out the back, fenced (white) below a pink tree. Come springtime, awnings are raised, and the men and girls come and go like moths among—as Fitzgerald put it—the champagne and the stars...
...gorgeous and twangy Sara Evans continues churning out hits like “Cheatin,’” she can soon be added to that list. The full-voiced country diva took Nashville by storm in 2000 with her huge hit “Born to Fly?? from the album of the same name. Unfortunately, the accompanying music video left more to be desired. Although Evans, sporting a short denim skirt, showcased her pair of amazing legs, the other characters—stereotypical farm hicks and caricatures of the stern “American Gothic?...
...bags with six nutritious items, we can queue up near the card-swiper lady. Relative to lasagna-scooping, swiping moves at four times the speed of sound. This way, small girls can get their meat lasagna without holding up the line, and I can actually “fly?? by instead of dropping...
...Corn Palace in South Dakota, where Korsmeyer, the son of a livestock farmer, spied a one-ton concrete pig. Korsmeyer, by then the father of two boys, shipped the pig home—“by ground, because pigs don’t fly??—and set it up in his yard as a “symbol of pride in his humble roots...