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...anti-Bush zingers (put in the mouth, unconvincingly, of her drugged-out street-hustler character Fontaine). Ensler has done a much better job of shaping The Good Body. But that critique of America's obsession with thinness, based on her interviews with women dissatisfied with their bodies, seems a pale follow-up to her 1996 breakthrough, The Vagina Monologues. (The producers have already announced that The Good Body will close in January...
...goes the stereotype, and it’s unfair. Some people were already pale. But however partly true it may be—like all stereotypes, this one includes many morsels of veritas—I was determined not to let this happen to me. I had vague designs on a career in journalism, but no desire to make it the center of my undergraduate life. “I’ll be writing enough in my classes,” I figured. “I’ll take a four year break from journalism, and then...
...modern walkers, free from the uncertainty and food worries that plagued Caley, have time to revel in their surroundings. Giant red waratah blooms stand on thick stalks like sentinels beside dark pools. Slow slugs colored electric pink and pale green come out after the rain, when the rich brown, gold and silver-gray hues of wet bark glisten. Huge flowers adorn gnarled banksia trees so old they would have been sprouting when Caley passed by. Owls call to another in the dark, and the stars, which Caley thought he was seeing when he found glow-worms in Luminous Valley, glitter...
...then, there’s always the fact that even if Yale were able to defy all odds and climb that insurmountable last rung on the ladder of success, it would still pale in comparison to its Cantabrigian rival. Though sometimes it takes the fun out of competition, we Harvard students simply can’t help that preeminence comes naturally to us. And with an undefeated football team this year—not to mention the only undefeated team in Division I-AA—the prospects for losing with dignity look especially grim for our dogged visitors...
...seemed that these beer aficionados certainly know their stuff. Whether it comes to explaining the historical need fulfilled by India Pale Ales (IPA) or matching the proper glass to each brew, the board members are well-informed on all things beer. They even keep a “beer log” with ratings and comments on sampled brews...