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...things grate on me,” he says. “That’s one of them...
...lose are the lives they have constructed to protect themselves from that world. Daniel and Kate have "a levelheaded alliance." She thinks of them as "Swiss bankers of the heart." But after three years in placid Leyden, she has a full inventory of wifely complaints. ("His smile can grate on her as if it were a cough.") And Daniel wants the rapture he finds with Iris. "He is like a man who suddenly discovers he can sing," Spencer tells us, "who one day opens his mouth in the shower and music bursts out of him, each note dipped in gold...
...with a chapter from Frances Maye's Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism, his story dwells...
...rest of the world--invisible not because they provoke people to look away in discomfort or guilt but because they look and act no different from the rest of us. These are not the deranged homeless ranting in their portable bedlam, a ratty blanket near a street heat grate. Families like the Cochrans live in our neighborhoods, go to our churches, attend the same public schools as our kids. And in Columbus there are more of them every day: demand for shelter by families with young children is up 14% over last year and rising faster than requests by single...
HUDS cited financial concerns as the reason that renovations have been shelved, for this summer at least. This line of reasoning would grate less, however, if HUDS did not waste money throughout the year in ingenious ways, ranging from the merely irrelevant to the outright infuriating. The decision to cry poverty barely four months after serving up thousands of (overcooked) lobsters in the annual Clambake is incredibly irritating, if not entirely surprising. So that HUDS can set about refurbishing the dilapidated serving areas in the affected—or, afflicted—houses as soon as possible, it should discontinue...