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...problems."... I'm interviewing for my Disney dream job tomorrow. If you see me this weekend and I look happy, ask me how it went. If I look unhappy, offer to buy me a stiff drink... Since I am supposed to be cutting-edge, I flouted a green sports vest and matching pants to lunch the other day and was immediately greeted with a chorus of jeers from my blocking group. "You look like the sixth member of 'Nsync," said one. "Hooray!" I replied. But the boos and flying butternut squash drove me back to my room to change...
Pere Enfantin's vest is close to that great therapeutic invention of the time, the straitjacket. You can't look without dread at the photos and engravings of panopticons, meeting houses, commune buildings, phalansteries and other social-idealist architecture in the 19th century stretch of this show. They resemble prisons and nunneries because they were prisons and nunneries, the difference being that the prisons meant to keep sinners in, whereas the Utopian buildings aimed to keep them out. But the same grim coerciveness suffused both, as we know from their ultimate state forms in the 20th century: Nazism and communism...
...give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
...give people from warmer places locals as roommates. My roommate, who hails from Newton, Mass., advises that cold weather is best dealt with by dressing lightly and running from place to place. When it started snowing yesterday, he wore a long-sleeved shirt and a light fleece vest. Being cold in October toughens you up for when it really gets frigid in December, he reasons...
Jones has kept her cards, so to speak, close to her vest. She has bypassed defense motions to toss the case, yet her pointed questions to the plaintiff sometimes mimic remarks by its critics--for example, that banks are already lining up behind individual brands. "If the market is going that way anyway, why do you want me to do anything?" she asked U.S. attorney Melvin Schwarz. To prevent a return to duality, he said. That might or might not happen, but as a former card executive puts it, "this is definitely a case where everyone's a little guilty...