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...boundaries of acceptable public speech and behavior are pushed ever outward (nice job, Janet and Justin), it gets harder all the time to find the line between frankness and prurience - especially in young-adult literature. British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young...
Pure, beautiful and approachable are actually adjectives that could be used to describe Lauder. With her patrician good looks, the 33-year-old granddaughter of company founder Estee Lauder has long been a regular in the society and fashion pages. "Aerin will always be the outward face of Estee Lauder, showing you what the brand means," says William Schmitz, an analyst at Deutsche Bank who covers the cosmetics industry...
Before Faneuil took the stand, the trial had been proceeding at a deadening pace. Bored with technical details about the securities industry, spectators contented themselves with divining Stewart's state of mind based on the few outward clues she exhibited: the succession of somber black pantsuits, the weak but polite smile she managed for news cameras, the strain that only occasionally surfaced on her heavily made-up face. When Faneuil finally appeared, a jolt of excitement was palpable in the courthouse. He proved such an engaging witness that he kept the room rapt. By the time defense attorneys...
...myself, to fall further and further into an internal world. I began to feel claustrophobic and slightly bloated. I began to look with new regard at my friends concentrating in various social sciences—government, economics, cultural this and that…were their studies not focused refreshingly outward, broadly and generously...
...then I reconsidered my friends, whose studies had seemed so broad and outward: my female acquaintances in Women’s Studies, my friend from Mexico who studies Latin America, my old hallmate, an aspiring entrepreneur, who majors in Economics. To some degree, each of us studies ourselves, tailors our class schedule so that we can explore some facet of our culture, our background, our identities—both present and future...