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...Flick through the pages of celebrity magazines like Hello! and OK!, and there'll often be an Aga somewhere behind all that lip gloss. Its cachet is gold-plated: royal country houses are equipped with Agas, Mel Gibson is a fan, and Tony Blair used to have an Aga before moving to No. 10 Downing Street. The stove has even given its name to a genre of contemporary fiction: "Aga sagas" are about modern families whose lives ebb and flow through Aga-centered kitchens...
...CALL US; WE?LL CALL YOU: "They?re the canker sore on the lip of humanity," says the publisher. "They interrupt dinners, down time, and always call at the wrong time." Of course, the "they" in question is telephone solicitors. In October, Warner will publish a paperback original, "Fun with Phone Solicitors: 50 Ways to Get Even!" by Robert Harris. The author offers such techniques as: The Telephone Ruse: Pretend to transfer your tormentor and then press several buttons on your phone The Verbatim Variation: Repeat everything the caller says in a sing-song voice The Drop-the-Phone Drill...
...That's fine. But don't forget about writing good songs while you're busy making sure every genre feels included in the conversation. From Blink-182's "Every Time I Look at You" to Sum 41's "Fat Lip" to Jettingham's "Cheating" the mode is uptempo, plaintive but not gloomy, a little angry but good-humored. For all that blending of rap and metal and punk, they're still craftsmanlike pop songs, peppy, hook-centered, reasonably entertaining. None of them are insufferable, but the only one that totally kicks ass is American Hi-Fi's "Vertigo," which happens...
...described as a "provocation" by Washington - suggests that Sharon is betting on a long, low-intensity war with the Palestinians rather than on any resumption of the peace process. And Arafat appears to be pinning his hopes on some form of international intervention. Both sides will continue to pay lip service to the Mitchell Report and the cease-fire brokered by CIA director George Tenet, but only in as much as such lip service is necessary to achieve their goals. Sharon plainly believes that military action to turn up the heat on the PA will succeed where negotiation has failed...
...looks or even—heaven forbid—his acting skills, but rather his dance moves. (Rule #11: If you decide to start dancing in a field, everyone you bump into will know all the steps, and will be wearing coordinated outfits.) The songs are lip-synched, but that doesn’t stop everybody from singing them (including my uncle, who does a particularly bad job). I once asked if any Hindi movies did not have songs and dancing. The room fell silent. I got several “What planet are you from?” looks...