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Then Agustina measured me for 20 minutes?which was awesome. My right arm is one-quarter of an inch longer than my left, which she would note for the tailors in Italy. Such asymmetry can make a difference in a shirt's appearance if it's not factored in, but, Agustina assured me, it's physiologically normal. "Yesterday I had a customer with a three-quarters of an inch difference," she said. "He was a little bit of a freak...
...prefatory “Note to the Reader,” the unnamed protagonist—ostensibly the author of Elizabeth Kostova’s debut novel “The Historian”—indulges in a moment of metanarration...
...historian’s prefatory note suggests, her story’s competing subplots move inexorably toward a climatic showdown in a crypt. It is no great surprise that when the lord of the undead finally appears, he is the “shadowy claw” of history...
...being Santa isn't all fun and games. At this summer's convention, the men learned the hazards of overbleaching a beard--the whiskers can snap off. On a more sober note, they discussed what to do if a child's Christmas wish is for a parent to stop hitting him or her. "Santa can't just get up from his chair and go make a phone call to child services," Connaghan says. One strategy: Urge the child to confide in a teacher until the teacher believes...
...eulogists - I think it was his editor and pal, Joe Lelyveld (oops, why didn't I note this?) - closed by saying that Johnny would live on through the stories told about him by other journalists. I have two. One is more an image than a story. I met Johnny on my first trip to Iowa of my first Presidential campaign in 1975. I was working for Rolling Stone and trailing an entertaining if futile Oklahoma populist named Fred Harris; Johnny and I were the entire press corps. We traveled in a camper. Fred often went barefoot, sang country music songs...