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...frisson of such discoveries that motivates Bustamante. "Being a scientist means living on the borderline between your competence and your incompetence," he says. "If you always feel competent, you aren't doing your...
...place so crowded and alive that his bottomless need for human contact can be satisfied every time he walks down the street? Jackie Onassis went there because the locals are blase about celebrity; Clinton went for the ones who aren't blase, who pay the high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure, it's hard to give up traffic control and Air Force One. But he makes himself a movable feast, providing sidewalk entertainment to a surprised group of rock fans waiting for the Dave Matthews Band in front...
...place so crowded and alive that his bottomless need for human contact can be satisfied every time he walks down the street? Jackie Onassis went there because the locals are blase about celebrity; Clinton went for the ones who aren't blase, who pay the high rents for the frisson of seeing Gwyneth Paltrow sipping a latte at the corner cafe. Sure, it's hard to give up traffic control and Air Force One. But he makes himself a movable feast, providing sidewalk entertainment to a surprised group of rock fans waiting for the Dave Matthews Band in front...
...school, I passed store after store with special Father's Day promotions. I saw pictures of handsome Dads with just a dusting of gray in their closely-cropped hair, holding a small child in one hand and some wonderful gadget in the other. I admit I did feel a frisson of excitement. But this was not sentiment about the enduring role of fathers in our lives, but the pervasive tickle of modern capitalism, where in order to enhance the desire for more and more objects, we have to create more and more holidays that are occasions for consuming them...
...tried electricity in 1938, doctors used chemicals to induce the frightening, painful seizures. Electricity worked faster, but the pain of uncontrolled convulsions remained. Patients fractured their spine, bit their tongue, broke bones. Consequently, the devils who ran some asylums used electroshock as punishment. In many circles, it retains a frisson of barbarity. Writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sylvia Plath reinforced the image. "It was a brilliant cure," Hemingway wrote sarcastically in the days after his electroshock and before shooting himself, "but we lost the patient...