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...Kennedy, who several years ago admitted that he had battled addiction and undergone therapy and taken medication to help treat depression, In March of 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard, and in August, the Coast Guard intervened when he had an argument with a girlfriend on a rented yacht. Since he became the youngest Kennedy elected to office when he won a seat in the Rhode Island state house at the age of 21, Kennedy has made no secret of the fact that the family legacy can weigh on his generation. In an interview with...
...can’t really complain. When it comes down to it, survival at this place depends on perspective. After refusing to let an 8-year-old beat him in a race in the movie Prefontaine, America’s greatest distance runner tells his girlfriend, “All my life people have told me, ‘You’re too small, Pre. You’re not fast enough, Pre. Give up your foolish dreams, STEVE!’” We know how Pre feels; there are a lot of people and things around...
...often borrows from the language and stock characters of mass-market advertising. In the title story, for instance, the disembodied “voiceover” intones its way into scene after scene. It proves protean as it is omniscient. One minute, it is reassuring a man whose faithless girlfriend has been snatched away from him by a giant, apparently biped, Twinkie on-the-run, “not to worry, there’s more than enough sweetness to go around.” The next, it is taking the side of a foul-mouthed, sociopathic nutritional supplement...
...ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their own kind and get caught up in lots of emotional drama. (Could it be a subtle parody of gay culture?) The story centers around Ferdinand's various rebound relationships after his girlfriend dumps him. In a sub-plot his friend Tree-man (who looks like a tree but acts like a lovesick French student) has an unreciprocated yearning for Ferdinand's ex. "If I hug you too long then I'll want to kiss you and then...
...pokes” on Facebook, hopefully you’ll have beguiled her into thinking that you are worth her time. But once you’ve reached the well-established stage in college relationships of “she’s not my girlfriend but if she hooked up with someone else I’d be pissed,” you can’t back off. Do everything you can to keep her interested and on her toes. Every time she gets even a little bored, tell her to pack a bag full of smiles, because...