Word: franciscos
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...Connubial blisters form right after the ceremony, on the newlyweds' drive from San Francisco down to a Mexican resort. Lila knows the words to every song on the radio and brays them at peak pitch. (Could Eddie not have tuned in to something more soothing, like Rush Limbaugh?) In bed, Lila's lovemaking is suspiciously professional: her moves include the Inverted Corkscrew, the Swedish helicopter and the Jackhammer, and she's given to screaming, "F--- me like a black guy, Eddie!" (On the plus side, she got his name right.) By the time Lila has disregarded Eddie's warnings about...
...breast cancer may be forced to use separate plates and spoons because of the widespread belief that the disease is contagious. "There's fear to feed the children with her own hands," says Vijaya Mukerjee, a breast-cancer survivor living in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta. Brazilian nurse Gilze Maria Costa Francisco, a breast-cancer survivor herself, recalls a young mother asking her whether she could contract breast cancer if her daughter burped during breast-feeding...
...object-with Eliasson at 40, producing works that require you to jump in and take part in them, to see but also to do. That's the secret of one of the most captivating pieces in the big Eliasson retrospective, organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, now at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Beauty consists of a curtain of mist penetrated by a spotlight to produce a floating rainbow wall. The beckoning illusion looks slightly different to each viewer depending on where he or she is standing. Beauty, Eliasson wants you to know, really...
...That happened 50 years ago, almost exactly to the day of the Mets' Sept. 30 demise. I was 11 years old. My then beloved New York Giants completed their dreary 1957 season in sixth place... and simply left town, moved to San Francisco. You couldn't even say, "Wait till next year." Next year the ballpark was empty. And I was faced with an existential dilemma. Should I root for the home team, the arrogant, ridiculously successful New York Yankees? Or should I persist in my loyalty, stay up late listening to Giants games re-created on the radio...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency...