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...Mind you, there's nothing intellectually strenuous in the late-summer offerings. These are quirky romantic comedies in which dissonant figures struggle to achieve harmonic convergence. They take their cues from a pair of summer releases 20 years ago: When Harry Met Sally, which described a friendship that was sometimes a courtship, and sex, lies, and videotape, in which a man's impotence was the spur to romance. (Read TIME's 1989 review of When Harry Met Sally...
...almost never saw our national anchors in shirtsleeves showing any kind of personal emotion. In retrospect, Cronkite's demeanor was restrained and appropriate, a reminder to the audience and young journalists that this was a business of the heart as well as the mind...
...your mouth." He is also given to discoursing on the ancient conflict between Apollo, god of the arts, reason and harmony, and Dionysus, god of wine, ecstasy and disorder. "Philosophically, we are trying to set aside this opposition between the body and soul," he declares. "Pleasure is in the mind, too; it's not only physical." Perhaps. But there's true corporeal delight in the surprise of biting into confectionery topped with numbing Sichuan buttons, or in experiencing previously unimagined combinations like artichoke confit with green aniseed, or foie gras - infused marshmallow - an elegant précis of the French...
...easy enough to name the great horses: Secretariat, Seabiscuit, Affirmed, Alydar. Now name the men who rode them. When you've got almost 1,000 lb. of magnificent thoroughbred thundering along a track, it's hard to pay much mind to the little man riding on his back...
...even from an experience as profound as the Vietnam War, even as we go deeper into new wars like Afghanistan. And as I now contemplate the departure of a life so central to my own and that of my country as Bob McNamara's, one overriding lesson bombards my mind: nationalist wars, civil wars, tribal and religious wars--they can never be won by Americans. As long as we're there and willing to fight and die, we won't lose. But in the end, we can't win either unless we realize that it must be their...