Word: remarkable
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...Scott Fitzgerald's oft-quoted remark that there are no second acts in American lives is a canard. Especially in American lives, there are second acts, encores, curtain calls, sequels and comebacks. In this case the first act was Marky Mark, rapper. The second is Mark Wahlberg, actor, perhaps even artiste. "I'm not shooting for the stars," Wahlberg says. "I'm just kind of doing things that I feel I can do good. I think I outgrew the Marky Mark thing, y' know?" Could be. Based on the way his second act is going, it will...
Thomas Carlyle, more than 1 1/2 centuries ago, wrote that "history is the essence of innumerable biographies." Indeed, the literature of medicine introduces us to a cavalcade of colorful and intriguing characters, an assortment of personalities that prompted historian Fielding Garrison to remark that "all human life is there." And yet, as distinctive as each of its many outstanding innovators has been, through the many ages and places in which their discoveries were made, there is a sturdy thread of tangible traits that unites them all. Even during the past four decades, which have witnessed medical innovation on an unprecedented...
When the local hippie minister makes a mildly suggestive remark to Elena, she says, "I'm going to try hard not to understand the implications of that." That is the cardinal rule here: Don't ask, don't dwell. One of the chilliest moments in The Ice Storm comes in an edgy scene where Ben tells Elena, "I guess we're just on the verge of saying something--saying something to each other." Saying something harsh and truthful would be a breaking of the code, of the lies that sustain their marriage and keep it arid...
Your spurious remark that former Mouseketeers are "turning nasty" verges on the tabloidesque and, by inference, taints 37 former child stars. For more than 42 years, the Mouseketeers were not involved in any incidents of substance abuse or bouts with the law, while the palpable problems of other child actors are well known. The union that represents us Mouseketeers, the Screen Actors Guild, is pursuing a claim against the studio on our behalf. Finally, thanks for superimposing Billie Jean Matay's photo over my face. I have assiduously avoided appearances in the tabloids for all these years. LONNIE BURR (MOUSEKETEER...
...touched us--that's the thing. As the Friar went on to remark, "So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint." She was so lovely to look at. She appeared to be so shy. Like all our children, she seemed to float above the drab and everlasting flintiness of our ordinary lives. Time and again we found ourselves ready to forgive her, just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that...