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...that he was applying for this job [at Wellesley] some time ago. We…hope to have someone in place by the end of the summer,” Gross wrote in an e-mail. “John will work with his successor to insure a smooth transition...
Never mind that I had known nothing but the smooth asphalt of the suburbs for 18 years; this trailer park off of a New Orleans highway felt foreign for so many other reasons. There was the white gravel sabotaging my high heels, the barefoot kids flinging tiny firecrackers into the sky, the bowlegged mutt slurping Wonderbread and canned beans, and the Vietnamese men lazing on a porch...
...Even if I had heard it infrequently, their speech was familiar, a forgotten song replayed on the radio. I knew the sudden dips and pauses of the smooth vowels; the up-downs and down-ups of the accents; the way a thought strung out along one-syllable words will end, hesitantly, like a question mark. It was the same song I had heard in my aunt’s house and at my grandparents’ dinner table. It sounded like deep bowls of noodle soup and bright fish sauce, incense burning in a dark temple and the yellow dust...
...smooth-but-dirty-jamz style gets tiresome. I don’t care that Nivea, the random guest on “Touchin’,” wants it “Deeper…deeper,” even if it is whispered softly...
...that running around in flip-flops and pounding in high heels can really wreak havoc on a girl's feet. Combat cracked heels with PediFix's new Heel-So-Smooth heel sleeves. Wear them around the house, and their special Visco-Gel will soften your soles. For extra cushioning on the run, Dr. Scholl's new For Her Open Shoe insoles are designed to slip into sandals without revealing themselves. And because nobody likes nail crud, there's DuWop's antifungal toe polish. --By Betsy Kroll