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Tripping the light fantastic at the Pudding? Match that cocktail dress with a black satin Tanenhaus bag with a pink sequin strap and a pair of killer plastic legs. Off to yoga class at Wellbridge? Sling along the “Shiva” bag, a divine octagonal sensation with ten lithe dolly arms a-waving...
...Could it be the magic and the mystery of love?" "Dark and Mad," and "Your Blue Shadow," dour ruminations set to plodding country, do little to improve the situation. The sense Thornton gives the listener is that while acting might be a craft he perfected back in the "Sling Blade" days, music is a passion he uses to drag into the open his most personal affairs. What he has forgotten in so doing, which he seems never to have forgotten as an actor, is the audience's need to be entertained...
Tonight's meeting is filled with characters. A young earth mother carrying her newborn in a hip sling hands out oatmeal cookies; moments later, a bunch of yahoos heckles the moderator, asking for equal time. Observing from the sidelines is Dave Hill, vice president of the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, representing powerful logging interests like Boise Cascade, which hopes to derail the monument. "We'd just like to narrow the area to the significant features that warrant monument designation," says Hill. Contrasting sharply with both the big-money forestry firms and the well-organized Greens, a ragtag crew...
...from Rochester, N.Y. to JFK. The cabin crew is pleasant without being too rah-rah, and efficient without being brusque. (It helps that they're not that busy, because JetBlue only serves funky snacks like blue potato chips and chocolate chip cookies, not the "real" meals that other airlines sling...
...language. Tell me one more explosive or poisonous. A friend and former colleague who is black, James Reynolds, is writing a book which explores that thesis. (By the way, I use dashes rather than spelling the word out on the grounds that it's bad manners, or worse, to sling around a word that is historically toxic and has always been used, by whites, as a weapon designed to be hateful and wounding to those whom it is aimed at. If blacks use the word - as they sometimes do, with versatility - it is their business, a usage at home...