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LAST week I wet my bed, but it only dampened one area of the sheets, so I didn't do anything about it. Two nights ago it happened again, but I just crowded over onto the other side of the bed and everything was OK. Then last night I moistened the pillow, but I just flipped it over and went back to sleep...
Professor Blumenthal is wary when he laments the "deglandularization" of youth, that no one kisses "(dry or wet)," that we write Mac-poetry. He has reason to be so. Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception...
...40th year, to speak of the "younger generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...
...Yeltsin listened glumly, Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin told stunned members of the Supreme Soviet about how one night last month their colleague showed up dripping wet at a police outpost in the bosky Moscow suburb of Uspensky. Yeltsin claimed that after being dropped off at an intersection in Uspensky by his driver, a gang of men grabbed him, pulled a bag over his head, hustled him into a car and raced wildly around before tossing him off a bridge into the Moscow River. He swam 300 yds. to shore, Yeltsin said, then rested briefly and went to authorities...
...photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several seconds or more. And while...