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...searching for larger game to hunt. He found it in the turmoil of the 1960s, with the assassinations of the two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. and the drama of the civil rights struggle. "I lived through the '60s, with these great events roiling around me. I never partook, but I always felt there were private stories underneath the public events." In 1995 he published American Tabloid, his inimitable take on what led up to the shooting of John F. Kennedy in Dallas. Its sequel, The Cold Six Thousand, takes the sordid tale of gangsters, pols, G-men, Cuban...
...Travers spent most of her youth in Cannes during the 1920s when women took to masculine coifs, slinky dresses and cigarettes to help them shake off "the shackles of the previous century." Swept up in fast-paced Riviera life, Travers gleefully partook in a whirlwind of booze, globetrotting and recreational sex, scandalizing her parents who accused her of becoming une fille facile...
This past week, many of us traveled home to our families, gathered around the dining room table, partook of gluttonous feasts and gave thanks for our many blessings. Having since returned to cold, dreary Cambridge for the last three weeks of the fall semester grind, we have considerably less to rejoice about. Nonetheless, for the first time in a long time, Harvard has given us some cause to express gratitude...
...those who thought that tea was only something that those English blokes partook of, guess again. Come join the Signet Society for Arts and Letters at their weekly tea and discover that Americans can boil water too. 5 to 7 p.m., 46 Dunster St. FREE...
...length of cheesecloth to purge himself. (It's a yoga thing, evidently.) According to USA Today, Carrey was explaining this to new buddy Elton John, who was so amused he sent the comedian some cheese, red wine and packets of cheesecloth. No word yet on whether Carrey partook...