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...Each year, as summer approaches, I make a hajj to London's West End to see the latest shows. I was there this year during an unseasonably warm spell. The English are so unused to balmy weather that, when the sun takes a robust turn, they rush outside, roll up their sleeves and flop on a lawn or bench for a London broil. All that fair skin takes a ruthless incinerating; by day's end, the only color anyone's wearing on face and arms is pink. I guess, considering the caustic images of American statesmen and media figures...
...plays Will Turner, who, with his olive skin and wispy goatee, must be the best-looking swordsmith in the West Indies. Fueled by love, Turner sets out with Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue damsel-in-corseted-distress Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) from dastardly pirate Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush). When you watch Bloom parrying onscreen, you see shades of pirate-movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural. But Bloom was actually the last lead to be cast. "We really needed somebody who could hold his own as the love interest-Errol Flynn character, so the audience wouldn't think Keira...
...dictaphone, make sure the speakerphone on my telephone was working, prepare a list of questions and re-read some comments Dr. Sarwer-Foner had made at a 1958 conference on the use of insulin in psychiatry. As I prepared, I felt the adrenaline rush that came with knowing I was completely steeped in academia...
...rush has come before, and its timing has always neatly coincided with school vacations—over Thanksgiving, when the facts and figures from my recent frenetic research at Harvard Medical School’s Countway Library somehow make peace with one another and congeal in a thrilling, argumentative whole, or over intersession, when a stroll through Barnes and Noble becomes an opportunity to take advantage of the fully-credited parental units on the other side of the store so that one magazine morphs into fifteen new books, all of which must absolutely be read, that week...
...Bidarray alainducasse.com) owned by famed French chef Alain Ducasse. Iparla features regional specialties like sauteed baby trout and duck-leg confit, along with local wines. These fine restaurants, like the rest of the region, aren't wholly undiscovered, but if you get there soon, you might beat the rush...