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...what is the alternative to a movie kiss? In Sleeper, Woody Allen had his characters at a futuristic cocktail party pass around a shiny metal sphere that when fondled produced a narcissistic ecstasy. In Tom Jones, Tom and the ribald Mrs. Waters consume a memorable dinner that is the moral equivalent, or the immoral equivalent, of a passionate night in bed. Perhaps in screenplays of the future, kisses will be blown on the wind like pheromones. The signals of passion might be changed: an ear might be nibbled, for example, or the nape of a neck nuzzled. Actual kissing...
...like the recent Baseball Knowledge Will Not Help You Pick Up Girls. There's an archive full of Lists (Embarrassing Things That Might Happen to You While Using a Lightsaber) and Reviews of New Food (on blowing bubbles with Skittles gum: "You would have far better luck coaxing a sphere out of chewed-up crayon and oatmeal"). Affiliated with, but separate and distinct from, the quarterly print literary journal McSweeney...
...Indeed, he and the entities he controls have given away hundreds of millions of dollars to charities. It's no coincidence that on the New York social scene, few people are willing to criticize Greenberg: he's still way too rich and powerful to alienate. Yet even in this sphere, Greenberg is known as quick-tempered--even yelling at people who dared to ask him to boost his giving...
...effect, by labeling those with the gall to question American global hegemony—whether in the academic sphere, the press, or the United Nations—anti-American, the in-party found a remarkably effective way of squelching dissent...
...upper echelons of the Republican Party. Playing the faith card in order to galvanize against a legislative privilege, however, represents a new perversion of our political leaders. Students should be concerned, not only because it threatens our freedom to dissent and operate freely in a secular academic sphere, but because it threatens to shepherd judges into power who will influence our lives and narrow our freedoms as individual Americans long after Dr. Frist has been replaced in Washington...