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...picture of the bell tower in the catalogue. He couldn't figure out why people thought it was so funny to spend a few million on a Science Center that looked like something the Inquiring Photographer might use. The Union dorms didn't do much for him either--the nicest building in the neighborhood, he concluded, was the Elk's Lodge across from Pennypacker. After meeting Larry, who was well into his fifth Budweiser since lunch, he wondered out loud that maybe the Elk's had a classier clientele...
...Kraus, 34, quit her job as an Illinois teacher last fall when she saw her two children "were losing me and the attention and love that only a mother can give. Soon afterward," she recalls, "at a pot-luck dinner at church, we each had to tell about the nicest thing that had happened to us recently. Other women talked about their jobs. When my turn came, I said, 'This is the first time I've stayed home and I thoroughly enjoy it!' People just said...
...care for the farm is stronger than her love for the others Mathilde, an earthmother figure, is a little shallow she massages away others' worries but never quite interacts with them. But for the most part, they are wonderfully human, and their idiosyncrasies become strangely endearing. Perhaps the nicest character is that of Marie, a tousled blonde supermarket checker who blithely undercharges anyone she feels has been cheated by the system but there is also Marco, a pudgy history teacher philosopher with bizarre theories of time and history; or Mathieu, a devout Marxist, who identified himself only as "Labour", trapped...
...television series on 20th century art intended to pick up where Kenneth Clark's Civilisation left off. "It's nice when people agree with what you've written about art," says Hughes, who also knows what it is like to have readers disagree with him. "But nicest of all is when what you write triggers people to think things through in their own terms. For me, criticism is really just the invitation to the waltz." Readers can waltz with Hughes by turning...
Alright--so some of the people have their flip sides, they're a little flaky, and they sometimes say non-serious things, but by and large, and I can say this on the basis of 24 years of covering R&R, these people are some of the nicest, most serious in the world...