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...says, even though Italians got first crack at reading it last year. In a typically culinary metaphor, Severgnini says: "It's like when you cook a good meal for your fiancée and your friends love it." In La Bella Figura, he takes us on a 10-day whirlwind tour of the country. A purposeful but ever-playful host, he stops in Tuscany to poke fun at notions of paradise, but not without criticizing the Tuscans for humoring us. He calls one fantasy "a kind of ultralight meal - stuzzicchini. It's the classic Tuscany book: give people what they...
...complacency.Hence my love for the Fung Wah Bus. And, I think, hence my countless classmates who have four- or five-line descriptions of their summer location on their facebook.com profiles, listing in excruciating detail the exact dates they will be in Bermuda, New York, Cairo, Madrid, and Venice. Their whirlwind tours and my own (New York-Cambridge-London-Paris-Grenoble) reflect more than just the tremendous opportunities available to Harvard students (the first two legs of my European trip have been generously funded by College research grants). They reflect a realization that the summer months are liberating because they allow...
Your last movie, Jersey Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, flopped. Did it suffer from the Bennifer whirlwind? To a degree. No matter how much we tried, the marketing seemed to say, "Remember the movie [Gigli] with those two people you can't stand anymore that came out a few months ago? Here's even more...
...outgoing president’s final days have included a whirlwind of visible media appearances, including interviews with ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and PBS’ “Charlie Rose”—his first interview with Rose in five years...
...second marriages is about 15% higher than in first ones, and matches between old lovers and friends aren't immune. A lonely man in Taos, N.M., in his late 40s jumped into a relationship with a former classmate he saw at a high school reunion in Dallas. After a whirlwind courtship, they married, and she moved in with him in Taos. But they quickly encountered difficulties, primarily over money. Within six months, the marriage was kaput. "People change," says Schwartz. "Experiences change them, and they wind up with emotional baggage and history. In the glow of a renewed love...