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Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
Naturally, this got me wondering about my cinematic soul mate (what was his name, was he better looking than me, etc.) But soon after, I was thrust into a period of monkish introspection. Randomness alone could not possibly account for such an odd episode. There must be some link, some pattern, binding my movie choices: The Insider, Quiz Show, Erin Brockovich...
...might assume that Kerouac was as wild as Dean Moriarty, the human jackhammer at the book's center, who was based on Kerouac's soul mate, Neal Cassady. On the Road made Kerouac the spokesman for the Beat Generation, an icon of hip. But that's not the man you meet in Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954 (Viking; 371 pages), a poignant selection of Kerouac's diaries edited by the historian Douglas Brinkley. The journals begin with Kerouac at 25, anguishing over his first novel, The Town and the City ("Why doesn't God appear...
...There is a grain of truth in the idea that men are, on average, more interested in casual sex than women, that men and women put different weights on different criteria for choosing a mate and that mating is a kind of marketplace in which people seek the most desirable mate that they have a hope of attracting,” Pinker writes in an e-mail...
...several democrats to accuse Beijing of orchestrating a dirty-tricks campaign against their camp, though that has not been proved. The scandals have been noticed. "People are asking us: 'Why should we vote for you if you can't keep your pants on,'" mourns Fred Li, Ho's running mate...