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...actually get up, I joined my roommates, who had thoughtfully woken me, for an eight-hour bus tour of Western Ireland’s most stunning geographical features; the Burren, a dark group of hills rising up from the bay, and the Cliffs of Moher—the sheerest, most spectacular set of cliffs I’ve ever seen...
...seminal, shame-free gold digger. Lorelei's honey-voiced, pixilated charm may be best expressed by her line, regarding one of her sugar daddies, "Sometimes Mr. Esmond finds it very difficult to say no to me." Whenever Lorelei appears onscreen, undulating in second-skin, cleavage-proud knitwear or the sheerest orange chiffon, all heads turn, salivate and explode. Who but Marilyn could so effortlessly justify such luscious insanity? She is the absolute triumph of political incorrectness. When she swivels aboard a cruise ship in clinging jersey and a floor-length leopard-skin scarf and matching muff, she handily offends feminists...
...Vajrayana, the "Diamond Vehicle" adopted in Tibet in the 7th century. Instead of attaining complete enlightenment gradually, Tibetan monks claimed to do so in a single lifetime, an approach compared by Rick Fields, author of the American Buddhist history How the Swans Came to the Lake, to climbing the sheerest face of a Himalayan cliff: demanding and perilous. Unwilling to limit themselves to the standard tools--chanting and meditative breath-control techniques--the Vajrayana Buddhists employ an eclectic mix that includes religious visualizations, philosophical debate, ritual, yoga and the energies of tantric sex. Buddhism typically took on some...
...produce an entire special issue of TIME with a writing staff of one would seem the sheerest folly. But if the focus of the issue is American art and the writer is Robert Hughes, then it begins to look like wisdom. For nobody comes to the subject better primed than Hughes. He has observed the U.S. art scene firsthand since becoming TIME's art critic in 1970. Three years ago, he embarked on a historical, eight-part TV series about it, also called American Visions, which is airing on pbs from May 28 to June 18. In conjunction with...
...invented in 1973 and will never be legislated out of existence; it is a reality for many women, whether Michael Pakaluk or any of us like it or not. To talk about "life" in reverent tones and willfully ignore the devastating consequences of illegal abortions is the sheerest hypocrisy...