Word: heart
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...most illuminating and eloquent is Tobias Wolff's explication of his short story "Powder"--which centers on a father and son's attempts at making their way home for Christmas Eve in the midst of a snowstorm. The urgency of memory, the need to mediate all the past's heart-break and humor, infuses Wolff's story with dead-pan beauty. Reminiscent of Raymond Carver's classic "Popular Mechanics" (minus the bloody conclusion) in terms of its powerful brevity, "Powder" is the best work included in the anthology...
...third wedding, Phillip discovers "flubber" (flying rubber) and leaves his fiance at the altar once again. The film has the formula villain in Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald) who not only wants to steal Brainard's goo, but also to capture the heart of his fiance. The predictable storyline is set up--Phillip must get back his girl, keep his hands on the gooey slime, and take on the villainous Croft...
...With all my heart I beg forgiveness of all who have been hurt by such acts of abuse," Law wrote...
While these reasons are interesting, they do not lie at the heart of the reason why these men prefer boxers. Men who are temporarily infertile from briefs are a small percentage of wearers, and the percentage of men who are currently trying to conceive a child is small anyway. The main reason men wear boxers can be summed up in one politically incorrect phrase: chicks...
...road. "Traffic-related injuries and deaths are growing worldwide at an alarming rate," Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater warned Tuesday. A new report from statisticians in Sweden expects traffic-related crashes to become the world's third most common cause of death by 2020 ? nipping at the heels of heart failure and "major depression" as the top ways...