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...cachet of living number-free; one of the luxuries of having a house in the English countryside is that, omitting the postal code, you can have an address made up entirely of words (viz. "Mr. Toad, Toad Hall, nr. Rat's Hole, Grahame's Head, Oxfordshire, England"). Yet somehow the figures always catch up with you in the end: villages in the Cotswolds have local phone codes five digits long--as long, in fact, as the numbers themselves. And it must be confessed that one of the only "analog" addresses in my book is, in fact, the one in North...
...light when leaked to the New York Times, which ran a front-page story highlighting the most provocative of its conclusions with the headline STUDY LINKS DROP IN SUPPORT TO ELITIST ATTITUDE IN THE ARTS. The presumption among many outraged artists was that a self-loathing NEA had somehow found common ground with right-wing bullies...
...three most dramatically com- pelling figures--Titus, Tamora and Tamora's lover, Aaron the Moor (Uche Amaechi '99)--Sherrod, as the vengeful Tamora, is the most successful. Exuding an air of darkly brooding, smouldering bitterness mingled with a strangely tragic Cleopatra-like dignity, she somehow makes one feel she's as much sinned against as sinner...
...been raised on inspiring stories of educational localism--of parents and teachers in modest, out-of-the-way places who somehow, through spirit and hard work, maintain schools whose graduates can perform in a world economy. These stories are true, but they mislead somewhat: American education is not quite so decentralized as it looks...
...find it very sad that middle-class America is filled with Martha wannabes. It is not Ms. Stewart's business acumen, independence or insistence on quality that is being emulated. Women are becoming slaves to style and obsessive do-it-from-scratch projects. Somehow interior design has become confused with having an interior life. KAREN SAGE-STOCKWELL Danville, Calif...