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...read this, I am in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, looking for another ideal. I picture ivory sand and a red and white yacht, the sound of tennis balls being hit, men in broadrimmed hats and white linen suits and the sweet tones of a gentrified, articulate southern accent...
...sale bin at CVS, anotherpost-season candy that didn't come close toselling out. Each year, confectioners produce 10billion Valentine's Day conversation hearts:enough to cross the continent five times with suchsweet nothings as LUV YA, BE TRUE, KISS ME and MYMAN. The taste is nauseatingly sweet in a stalesort of way, and the parallels with colored chalkabound. Nonetheless, the candy heart is one ofthose holiday staples that persists. After all,the idea is kind of cute, and they fit socomfortably inside the envelope of a Donald Duckor Snoopy valentine that you had to distribute tothe entire second grade...
Through April 16. "Sweet Dreams: Bedcovers andBed Clothes." This exhibition of quilts,coverlets, blankets, futon covers, lingerie andsleeping caps will be drawn primarily from thepermanent collection...
...students danced hard under a strobe light, and according to second-year grad student Tony Zhang, had "a really good time." Leverett's dance attracted roughly two hundred students (mostly first-years and Leverett house residents) with the promise that "the first 100 will receive a kiss" -a rich, sweet Hershey's kiss. An additional perk was the personal ad board where students could advertise their availability, and perhaps even get a response...
...recounts this social history with understated narration (by Morgan Freeman), evocative music (blues and gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama sharecroppers, who later owned a Chicago barbershop and whose gentle, unhurried gravity is something close to poetry. Like this series...