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Springsteen still performs his full show (four hours, counting intermission) and has made no concessions to flash. There are video screens to beam images of the Boss and the E Street Band up to seats where the air may get thin, but Springsteen works hard to retain the feeling of one-on-one communion that has characterized his shows since the early days. Intimacy is lost incrementally as venues and audiences get larger, of course, and Boss fanatics of long standing will have to do a little adjusting to their dreams. Playing music on a ball field may never...
Bravo for showing that fitness isn't only for the thin or the strong or even just for adults. As an exercise physiologist, I've spent my career trying to change how people look at exercise. We all need to get back to making fitness activities feel as they did when we were kids--full of fun, movement and creativity--not the drudgery of the same old monotonous 30 minutes on a treadmill...
...Would he yell at me? Absolutely," says Edward Matthews, a longtime AIG senior executive. "I always told people when we were hiring them, 'If you have thin skin this is the wrong place.' Did he drive people hard? Absolutely. But who did he drive the hardest? Himself...
...become fashionable to take a menial job--nanny, say, or assistant to Anna Wintour--and then snitch about it in a thinly veiled novel. Anyone have a problem with that? Pine used to do publicity for Miramax, and she puts the grade-A material she gathered there to excellent use in the tale of Karen Jacobs, a young woman who leaves a dignified but dull job for a terrifying, exhausting--but occasionally glamorous--one at the fictional Glorious Pictures, where even the office dog gets its teeth bleached. The plot is gossamer thin, but the dirt is deep, dark...
...large crowd spread the police presence thin and created long lines at the porta-potties, exacerbating the problem of public urination...