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...hasn't discarded the conventions of romance, Quinn is more than willing to tweak them. In Romancing Mister Bridgerton, her 11th novel, which spent a month on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself a feminist...
...uncertainty lows ?will depend on the stability of a post-Hussein regime,? Francois Trahan, chief investment strategist at Bear Stearns, writes in a report this week. As for the broader market, ?we would not expect a quick military victory to completely eliminate risks." At best, "it will bring a sigh of relief to equity investors and refocus attention on the fundamental backdrop." A backdrop which still includes the earnings woes and slender profits that beset much of corporate America with or without the uncertainty in the Middle East...
...with surprise, as well as a sigh, that the entertainment community greeted Hirschfeld's death last week. (Of what? Surely not of old age!) Obituarians too easily write that one man's passing marks the death of an era, but it can be written in Al Hirschfeld's case that this is the death of two or three Broadway eras. He came to his calling - caricaturist to the stars - in the 20s, when Broadway was the face of American sophistication and sizzle. He was there when Gershwin presented "Porgy and Bess," when Tennessee Williams drove his "Streetcar," when "Guys...
...breathed a sigh of relief after the dunk,” Sullivan said...
...where is the nugget of truth? Whereas Europe breathed a sigh of relief and smiled approvingly at its peaceful marchers, a frustrated Times vacillates schizophrenically between two stories—impending violence and summer of love—never quite integrating the narratives. The fact of Florence is that its eye-liner wielding peaceniks were wielding cobble-stones and petrol-bombs in Genoa. Since Genoa, they have shaken Italy’s government with two general strikes and the continuing occupation of factories by some 70,000 “redundant” Fiat workers. Yet in Florence they took...