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...weight, Monty's profile proclaims his love for the beach and taking walks. Another profile, belonging to Marley Sue, gushes, "I will occasionally give you love bites on your feet and toes especially if you're wearing socks!" A third profile - Fletcher's - is more philosophical: "Life is too short to behave for too long...
What drives you to create and design? -Gabriela Labastida in Langley, Canada I try to see everything. I look at what fashion houses do, read magazines, record films and TV programs, see everything with high ratings with my own eyes. In short, everything. Also, I am an ardent collector. It is a pretty scary hobby. The amount of money I spend on it can get out of hand. My recent favorites are vintage Blythe dolls and I have about...
Because brilliant writing is difficult to sustain, one usually opens a volume of short stories with the expectation that half a dozen of them will be satisfying and workmanlike, and that a couple will be duds, leaving two or three pieces of real quality to carry the book and advance the reputation of the author. But of the entire trove of qualities that distinguish Vincent Lam's first book of short stories, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, the most immediately conspicuous is that each and every single story in this book is a flickering, luminous...
...other respects, too. Crumbling roads make it difficult to reach some of the more attractive destinations. Raw sewage flows from Kotor and Tivat into the Bay of Kotor, and there are daily power outages. Still, the tiny country has achieved a good deal in a short time. Less than a decade ago, NATO warplanes were bombing targets in Montenegro in the campaign to drive Milosevic out of Kosovo. And now? Budva's "Jaz" beach hosted the Rolling Stones last summer and in September will stage part of Madonna's 50th birthday tour...
...press. Yet how we achieve or how we approach this, I think, has to take into account that not everybody is going to be at the same place right away, and that if we think we can simply impose our institutions through military means, that we'll probably fall short, because the world may be smaller, but it's not that small...