Word: mattered
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...Unknown City is a cogent and at times, exhausting read. The impact of the book lies in the unmerciless truth of its subject matter. This is not a movie or TV miniseries of the week. In The Unknown City the screenplay is that of life; the script that of experience. The interviewees are not fictional characters, but real people divulging the most intimate and, oftimes, humiliating details of their lives. And this is why, unless you are using it for a research paper, The Unknown City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture...
...history as just plain old Donna Rice) at the booksellers' annual schmoozefest, BookExpo America, where Rice was promoting her forthcoming book, Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace. For the first time, Rice, an old hand on the political sex-scandal front, was persuaded to talk about the Lewinsky matter. Her advice to Monica? "What I would say to anyone is that there is hope, and there is a way to go through a scandal with dignity," said Rice, now married with two stepchildren. "Try to take the high road, turn the other cheek and work through the anger...
...Ludwig Museum in Cologne. But one of the artist's most famous and important works, Canyon, below left, a collage that features a stuffed bald eagle with a box in its talons, may not make it. Under the U.S. Eagle Protection Act, regulation No. 50CFR22.2, no bald eagle, no matter how long dead (this one flapped off its mortal coil more than 40 years ago), may leave the U.S. at any time. "It would be really bad for us if we had to make do without the picture," says Evelin Weiss, the Ludwig's vice director. "The whole hullabaloo...
...what do kids see? This scene, for example: Dr. Drew listening closely to an embarrassed 21-year-old whose girlfriend has been joking to his friends about the size of his penis. Pinsky handles this painful subject with a quick, matter-of-fact suggestion: Take a closer, more informed look at your abusive girlfriend. After a crass joke from Pinsky's partner, comedian Adam Carolla--there to provide levity--Loveline's newest co-host, Diane Farr, affirms that size, despite what the ads for Godzilla say, is not all it's cracked up to be. Pinsky's message, both educational...
...Cacheris had agreed to be his court-appointed attorney, Ames beamed, "I was wondering what I was going to do for a lawyer. And I get Plato Cacheris!" Cacheris, 69, loves to be a player and earlier this year joked about being only on the sidelines in the Lewinsky matter. "The President and Vernon Jordan are already taken," he joked, when explaining why he agreed to represent Jordan's chauffeur...