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...flesh-colored kimono?” even when they lead suffocating lives. They are closed in by poverty and the small towns they live in; their lives are bleak—sometimes too bleak, as in “Flowers for Marjorie”—and yet somehow Welty is able to demonstrate moments of humor and human insight. Nevertheless, I had only read a limited amount of Welty and wanted to get to know her more intimately, so I picked up “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty” when I got back from...
...Somehow, I would have hoped that the Director of the University Library, and brother of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, might have understood the value that both—historians and journalists—can bring to a free society, and to the fellowship of educated men and women to which I was welcomed more than 42 years...
...stupid sport that nobody really likes.I jumped in the back of a truck and road along a main city block bordering the Nile, waving my hands in the air while trying to hold on for dear life. My friend Jordan and I were a commodity, yes, two Americans somehow in Egypt, somehow celebrating with them on this hallowed day.But we were nonetheless—and with the little Arabic we knew—able to join in the chants, meet these people, and understand that this was far more than just a game.Egypt is not a pretty place...
...wedding was a candlelight ceremony, by necessity. The church was without power, and parts of it had no water. Somehow, the pastor managed to find a florist, a piano player - and a baker. We were shocked, and so grateful. It was a beautiful ceremony, if a touch bittersweet. Holly's parents, who evacuated Brazoria County ahead of Ike, couldn't get to Houston. She asked my dad to walk her down the aisle. My daughter was thrilled she got to be a flower girl as planned...
...centerpiece of the 19-by-24-foot trashscape is a mountain of discarded mattresses. Shredded, torn and piled one on top of another, he renders them both distasteful and somehow comforting. Adding a few strokes to capture a surprising softness of one brown fouton, Liu steps back and looks over his work. "Everything has been used by humans," he says. "You feel it in your heart...