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...then there are some hook-ups that even the slickest sleuths should avoid at all costs. “Dormcest” is always a bad idea. If things go sour, your 4 a.m. vending machine visits will always be wrought with the fear of bumping into your ex-lover buying Diet Coke for a new honey, or using the basement dryers for something other than drying clothes. Plus, dorms are mini-Harvards—word gets around pretty fast, and nobody wants to be the year’s “Holworthy Ho?...
...feelings, too / And I still love you” with honest hurt and determined strength. Wainwright doesn’t only focus on the borderline of the socially acceptable, however. She self-consciously explores everything from the shocked naïveté of a jilted lover (“You cheated me and I can’t believe it”) to the origins of artistic inspiration (“I could steal a melody / Of this I am allowed”). The mood of her music covers a similarly broad spectrum, from the downright creepy ballad...
...White Teeth.” The imperial imagery is nice, but it’d also be nice to discover the parallels myself instead of having them shoved down my proverbial throat.This leads me to my confession: while admittedly a bit of a hater, I am a lover of Andrea Levy’s “Small Island.” I picked up the novel this summer because my mother was reading it for her book club. It’s hard not to compare Levy to Smith: both are black, female British authors of Jamaican heritage. More...
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...return dirtier and sexier, or there would be no mo' money. The return episode is also funnier and dumber, in the best sense: it's the kind of show in which a jilted wife confronts her politician husband with a golf club in the shower over his tranny lover. Its stripped-from-the-tabloids approach is nothing new, but it's well done, and a little familiarity won't hurt the show's chances...