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...earnest. Slowly the cold but humid Harvard air becomes oppressive, thick and heavy. I become Ed Harris in The Abyss, breathing a slurry of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Each breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water pressure that compress me on all sides, but I am not crushed...
...been battling Mel Carnahan, the man who had succeeded him as Governor. It was a fierce and unfriendly contest right up until the day three weeks before the election when Carnahan and his son died in a plane crash. Ashcroft's graceful handling of the tragedy and his narrow defeat at the polls ensured that among other things, it would be Carnahan's widow Jean--who was sworn in to the Senate in her late husband's place--who will be introducing Ashcroft to the Judiciary Committee this week...
Consider my fictional ancestor visiting the France of 1901--Rudolph Douthat, we might call him, wandering the Quartier Latin and the narrow, flea-market streets of Montmartre. In the last twenty-five years alone, Paris has seen the sculptures of Rodin, the ballerinas of Degas, the water lilies of Monet, the dreamy Provencal mountains of Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only...
...first floor will be separated into a restaurant and bar. A narrow staircase leads to the second floor, which boasts a domed glass ceiling...
...galumphing, knock-kneed stride that explains why, as a 6' 2" 200 lb. high-school student in Little Rock, Arkansas, he was in the band rather than on the football team. The camera shot of him walking by himself - steely-jawed and deeply self-conscious - along a narrow hallway into the Democratic convention was one of the most hilarious minutes of television I've ever seen...