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...Filene's Basement in Boston is the mother of all Filene's Basement stores (although some argue that the younger Worcester branch is far superior.) Like Mother Nature, she will always remain central in the lives of humans because she fills a vital role in the delicate realm of human experience, as necessary to survival as water, as pleasing as the sun. Filene's Basement allows to revert to our most basic condition: that of the hunter-gather...
Americans have grown accustomed to French intellectuals bemoaning the invasion of our degenerate culture into their sacred realm...
...There are broader societal pressures woman might feel in general such as what they're supposed to look like and be like in terms of parenting and that whole realm," said Christina S. Griffith, assistant dean of first year students...
...undiscover'd country," as Hamlet put it. It may be life's last mystery, the only truly private realm, since sex today is practically a spectator sport. What are the contours of this frightening place? What does it look like, feel like? How does it sound? These are questions that Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland seeks to answer in How We Die (Knopf; 278 pages; $24), a series of eloquent and uncommonly moving reflections on what his subtitle calls "life's final chapter...
...Letter to the Editor, full of zinging male bluster: "And then along came that greasy, flabby small-minded, mealy-mouthed, pasty-faced, and potato-headed daily fishwrap and dog's biffy, The Picayune-Moon, edited by that dildo Hector Timmy. (You.)" This story works because it remains within the realm of possibility, where Keillor's penchant for hyperbole and his expansive, ingenious vocabulary stretch the ordinary into the hilarious...