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DEFINITION hem-line the-o-ry n. A hypothesis that the length of hemlines predicts how well the U.S. stock market will do--the shorter hemlines are, the better the economy will...
...trunkful of classic pop - Rodgers and Hart's"Manhattan," Dietz and Schwartz' "Dancing in the Dark," Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - I found a few surprises: the 1952 "Guess Who I Saw Today," a quietly devastating ballad of Cheever-like yearning and betrayal, and "Pack Up Your Sins," a Berlin number that was new to me, and wittier than the songs of his I know from this period (1922). Just reading some of the lyrics, you can feel the rhythm and the revelry: "Pack up your sins and go to the Devil in Hades...
...topic. "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker": "Well I don't know how he does it but he does it!"A song from Red, Hot and Blue, "I Wake up in the Morning Feeling Fine," has Betty in a post-coital afterglow: "It must be cause you kiss me good ev'ry night." (Yes... kiss...
...ry Giscard d'Estaing achieved a rare victory from that middle ground in 1974. Now, once again, says Bayrou, "there are millions of French people who want out of the perpetual confrontation between the left and the right." The candidate is traveling through Normandy to a rally in Evreux. When he's not out campaigning, Bayrou likes to unwind driving one of his tractors. That machine would come in handy for uprooting the nation's two largest parties, which he compares to "big trees that have become rotten inside...
...University of Paris literature professor, wants to reassure students and bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps in their knowledge," Bayard says. "Many great intellectuals - Paul Valéry, [Michel de] Montaigne, Oscar Wilde - often spoke about books they hadn't read, and didn't feel guilty about...