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...citizens swear to "bear true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution, pledging loyalty to a document written by men who could hardly have imagined a pluralistic democracy of this many people practicing this many faiths and speaking this many languages. The framers wondered whether Americans had enough in common to form a united nation at all--and they were far more homogeneous than we are, and there were only about 4 million of them. It took 100 years to get to 50 million. We reached 100 million in 1915, when the largest segment of the foreign-born population came from...
GORDON RAMSAY'S F WORD BBC AMERICA, SUNDAYS, 9 P.M. E.T. Turns out Ramsay knows how to do something besides swear. The bad-boy Brit best known for filleting aspiring chefs on Hell's Kitchen reveals his reserved(ish) side, showing off his home kitchen and chatting up celebs between rounds of chewing out cooks at his restaurant. (I didn't say he forgot how to swear.) F Word (stands for food) is enjoyable less for cooking tips than for Ramsay's political incorrectness about, say, foie gras, the buttery liver produced by force-feeding ducks and geese. "Some people...
...dead when I got here. I swear...
...Delivery rooms tend to be noisy and joyful places. Mothers in the midst of childbirth have been known to scream, swear, and growl. Conversely, obstetricians and midwives maintain a calm and instructive tone. Nurses offer encouragement. IVs drip, monitors beep. The obstetrician, having accompanied the mother-to-be through her uncomfortable pregnancy and painful childbirth, finally delivers the prized baby with the customary, "It's a boy" or "It's a girl." The little one gives a lusty cry then the nurse or pediatrician quickly assesses the newborn, performs any necessary resuscitation, and then, when all is stable, places...
...lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked is not just a physical place, where "you could swear you heard the daydreams of lazy lizards sunning themselves on the branches," but a spiritual realm painted on an operatic scale, where the ancestral rainbow serpent forges the land, a river of fairy people, the yinbirras, rushes tsunami-like through the bush, and a cyclone hits the coast...