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...uncomfortable self-conscious Yucky, the time has come to embrace winter and re-invent yourself. When all else fails and nothing can brighten the dark winter months, consider cashmere. Luxury can often bring happiness. But don't go crazy; Dr. K recommends leaving your fur at home...
...months ago literary critics were busying themselves trying to invent new synonyms for epic and powerful. These efforts--putting a serious premium on thesauruses nation wide--were sparked by the appearance of Don Dellio's Underworld. In that monster tome Dellio juggles the stories of multiple historic and non-historic characters, all the while mining the existential freak-show of the later 20th century for all its tragic, ironic and surreal material...
...Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend to be the protagonists," she notes, "not the ornamental love interest"--and the age returns the favor. If Edwardian England hadn't existed, James Ivory might have had to invent...
...record: The original Cardiff Giant is on permanent display at the Farmers' Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. That fact contains an extra-literary, though no less poetic, irony. Across town, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, there is a plaque that sheepishly admits Abner Doubleday did not invent the game. At the same time, its text seems to suggest that a little mythology is not a bad thing. Just don't pay too much for too little...
...rate, it's unclear how effective industrial-era antitrust law can be in an age when any enterprising teen can, in theory, invent a new word processor on his laptop and kick Word's butt. The Web is the ultimate free market, whose invisible hand works with irresistible force, even on what seem to be immovable objects...