Word: lightness
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...growing sentiment that trading global dollars for a generation raised on cell-phone minutes is a raw deal. Carandang, who works with families of migrant workers, named her most recent book after one boy's lament for his mother working as a caregiver in the Middle East: "The light of the home is gone...
...Wonder Room has a disco-like light-up floor, into which games are programmed, as well as a climbing wall and padding for the hurt-free throwing about of one's person. Children are allowed to choose which activities they want to pursue, and initially, says kindergarten teacher Nancy Simko, they all scramble for the Wonder Room. But with weekly visits from the yoga specialist, the therapeutic-ball specialist and the puppeteer, the kids are soon tempted away...
...Fleming's Bond either. The early novels were intended as light entertainments; they inhabited a world in which an überstud with refined tastes (the right car, martini recipe, cigarette) also accessorized by bedding beautiful, willing, duplicitous women; it's no coincidence that 007 and Playboy were the prime male icons of the Eisenhower-Kennedy era. Bond occasionally engaged in fisticuffs with a brigand, but that was just a different kind of workout. As played by Sean Connery and Roger Moore from the '60s through the '80s, Bond greeted each new threat to his life with an upper-class smile...
...picking sides on the intractable issue of same-sex marriage. More troubling than the simple passage of Proposition 8 in California are the national reverberations such an event might trigger. Even the thwarted opponents of gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts might take heart and be reinvigorated in light of this development...
...just as at home as a monograph of paintings, as is a collection of biographical drawings, as are tracks from a band called Hooded Figures, whose founder and lead singer is a 10-year-old named Lula (great stuff, actually).It’s certainly odd, then, that in light of all of this, my mind turns once again to the words of Susan Sontag, who once wrote that the advent of photography had forced people to develop a “chronic voyeuristic relation” with the rest of the world and criticized it as a harmful...