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...Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit...
What followed for me, in no meaningful order, was intense exercise and weight loss; fugue states punctuated by light psychotherapy, heavy drinking and moderate drug use; really good sex; Italian classes (where I learned to pronounce il mio divorzio perfectly); and marathons of cooking. I had always enjoyed the kitchen, but now I would make pumpkin ravioli from scratch on Thursday and cook a black bass in parchment on Friday and bake an olive-oil cake on Saturday. The fridge was stuffed; my friends were ecstatic and full. But in the mornings, alone before dawn, a jolt of terror: What...
RICHARD CORLISS'S RECENT SUGGESTIONS in "How to Save the Awards Shows" were shameful [Jan. 14]. Any intelligent film reviewer knows that the best films and the most popular flicks are usually light-years apart in quality. Are the Academy Awards about honoring good filmmaking, or are they about trolling for viewers for the telecast? Shouldn't everyone be more concerned that the better films of the year get the attention they deserve? Stephen J. Miller, ORLANDO...
...ocean levels and severe storms increasingly threaten Florida and the Gulf Coast. Once businesses support climate change legislation, he said, it will be much easier to enact mandatory carbon dioxide caps. “It legitimizes this in many ways for the [political] right, who wait for a green light from the business community,” Kerry said. The senator’s speech on climate change came amid a recent drive among campus activists to lower Harvard’s carbon imprint. In December, Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith expressed support for a plan to reduce...
...disparaging of President Bush's eight-day tour of the Middle East by America's staunchest opponents in the region was hardly unexpected. Iran's foreign minister claimed it was designed to give Israel a green light "to perpetrate new crimes" against Palestinians. Lebanon's most senior Shi'ite cleric accused Bush of "war crimes." A prominent jihadist web site called the President "this criminal, butcher and murderer of our blood...