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...their sense of importance about themselves and the world's acknowledgment of such. Julie is depressingly desperate for the payoffs of the contemporary age. At Amherst College she edited the literary magazine. She wrote half a novel. She is owed. You can see her thinking that her mother, who lives in Texas but calls in regularly, is just stupid for not seeing the righteousness of her need. (See pictures of the real Julia Child in the kitchen...
...1970s, I watched Child on PBS with my mother. It was obvious even to a kid that this tall woman with the tremulous voice was having tremendous fun in her kitchen. Even when she made mistakes, she seemed like a woman at peace. Ephron shows us the Child who was on the road to that peace. She'd won the romantic lottery but was still seeking - not fame or importance but a way to be useful, and to share. She was modern in the best sense of the word. Julie & Julia is structured around the idea of two women "finding...
...What were we going to do--call up Bernie and tell him, 'God, I'm making too much money. What's going on?'" Or the small detail. If you're in the market for a description of Madoff's opulent walk-in closet or the tidbit that his mother wouldn't buy him Keds, then Oppenheimer is your...
...Lengsfeld, a former East German dissident and single mother, shrugs off the attacks. "It's ridiculous to suggest that I'm being sexist or antifeminist," she says. "I'm a woman and I'm proud of that. I just wanted an eye-catching campaign poster to draw attention to serious election issues, like climate change. The posters are meant to be funny and ironic...
...Catholics around the world, Aug. 15 is among the holiest of feast days. It marks the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, when the mother of Jesus is believed to have been physically taken into heaven after death so that her body would not suffer earthly decay. For the Catholics of Sri Lanka, Aug. 15 this year marked a similar miracle: the survival of a 500-year-old statue of the Virgin, through the fiery tumult of a quarter-century of civil war, which was re-ensconced in a jungle church that was once again safe to travel...