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Looking chunky and suburban, yet glowing with hope, Winslet is the opposite of her Titanic character. There she grasped heedlessly at her destiny; here her reach is more tentative, her manner more reactive than active. There's bravery in that acting choice, and in the refusal of director Gillies MacKinnon, working from a script adapted by his brother Billy of a novel by Esther Freud, either to romanticize or trash the hippie past. They permit us to see it for what it was--another silly, doomed, very human attempt to evade responsibility's inescapable embrace...
...turned his nose into a purple bulb. He hated to be alone but had no talent for making friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
...arrangements by which Harvard studentsparticipate in the ROTC program at MIT was workedout a number of years ago in a manner that honorsboth the rights of our students and our principlesof nondiscrimination," he wrote...
...someone who is exceptionally lazy and proud of it, I am always on the lookout for things that will make my life even more friction free, which is why the sudden proliferation of all manner of electric bikes and scooters thrills me (in a low-affect, let's-not-unduly-elevate-the-heart-rate kind of way). You've probably heard about the E-Bike, the brainchild of erstwhile Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, which went on sale (for $995 and up) at car dealerships in warm-weather states two weeks ago. I'm certain Iacocca is on to something...
Diabetes can kill its victims in all manner of nasty ways. The complications include heart disease, stroke and kidney failure--and these are just a few of the ills that can result from the body's inability to process sugar...