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...worker: he prepared and directed The Shape of Things while editing his film Possession, based on the A.S. Byatt novel. "I needed a night job," he said at the opening. The new play is a night story, a cautionary tale to tell the naive young before they drift to sleep dreaming of the perfect mate. It flicks references to other fables of sexual predation (Fatal Attraction, Play Misty for Me), while stirring a mood of increasing emotional dread. And at its heart is the notion that an artist-anyway, a novelist or playwright?is essentially a vampire, draining friends...
...running away from home. I would stay in downtown Portland with all the street kids, we'd go to clubs, sometimes somebody had an apartment we could stay in, sometimes we'd sleep in parks, sometimes we wouldn't sleep at all. The summer before I turned 15 I left home for good and was on the streets for most of the summer. I would panhandle, sit somewhere downtown and ask people for money. My priority was alcohol first, cigarettes and food second. Pretty much from the time I got up to the time I went to sleep...
TIME talked to the nation's First Reader about what's she's reading, who she's swapping books with, and why she sometimes has to ask the president to turn off the light and go to sleep. Her report...
...know everyone mentions it, but just seeing her smile--which is just about all of the time is enough to brighten your day,” he continued. “It really is infectious, even after a long week of little sleep and lots of school work...
Harvard’s soul is in the Yard, where ghosts walk. To sleep where your heroes slept—Thoreau, Emerson, Gertrude Stein, Franklin Roosevelt—to follow the paths they walked on, is a rare privilege in a young country. I come from Los Angeles, a city famous for obliterating all traces of its past. In the Yard, the trees are saturated with the spirits of great women and men, as well as the thousands of mere mortals who occupied this ground in an unbroken line that extends far past the founding of the republic itself...