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...sure whether this is Notting Hill, Love Actually, or just some hideous amalgam of all the other resolutely WASPy, sickly-sweet Richard Curtis creations: There’s the wacky car chase through central London to a Motown soundtrack. The even wackier minor characters that swear like sailors and smoke like particularly industrious chimneys. Bridget falling flat on her face, a lot. Further plundering of the Aretha Franklin catalog. And, of course, that stalwart of the rom-com genre, Hugh Grant, walking on eggshells and flopping his fringe on the way into cinematic oblivion...
...game was postponed for an hour at the start because the officials were unable to make it to the rink on time. It is the first postponement for the Crimson at home since Nov. 5, 2000, when Harvard’s two zambonis caught on fire and spewed smoke onto the rink...
Desai is a literary watercolorist who writes as if TV had not been invented, registering sounds and sights as a way to suggest more subtle currents underneath. As she describes Mexico, her prose catches fire with the smoke of copal, the "shriveled scorpions and fried grasshoppers" the Zapotec women lay out on the sidewalks, the trucks "rattling over cobbles the shape and size of human skulls." The skeletons that dance behind even a hotel reception desk remind us that the past here has the present in its thrall...
...cake? Warrens of St. Just will ship them worldwide. www.warrensbakery.co.uk Luxuriate in sweet but alcoholic Cumberland Brandy Butter to go with your Xmas pudding. Peppermint candy slab Kendal Mint Cake will keep you going on hiking expeditions in the Lake District or the Himalayas. Delivery worldwide. www.edirectory.co.uk Smoking gives the humble British eel a sophisticated flavor. Locally caught smoked eel is available from Brown and Forrest of Curry Rivel, Somerset, who will smoke anything - trout, salmon, cheese, venison, ostrich - and deliver across the E.U., but not beyond. www.smokedeel.co.uk Cottage Delight of Staffordshire will send home-made date-and-walnut cake...
...prairie, toward the wilderness, away from newspapers and TV and politics, to a cabin, a lake, a boat, a bed, a fire, a book, where I could get this noise out of my head. There are little towns out there where a person could walk around and get leaf smoke up the nostrils and that could pretty well clear the head...