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...Most celebrities can't write, and neither can the people they pay to write for them. But there's something compelling about a good celebrity memoir just because it's so achingly predictable: the humble beginnings of the plucky, plain little waif from Nowheresville, the chance discovery, the lucky break, the pieces of a fabulously successful and lucrative career magically magnetizing together. (For a lengthier and smarter consideration of this topic see the late David Foster Wallace's "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," an extended review of Austin's Beyond Center Court: My Story collected in Wallace's Consider...
...with longer sleepers. But those who slept less than seven and a half hours a night yet experienced no overnight hypertension showed no increased cardiac risk; their rate of heart disease was the same as that of the long sleepers. Particularly when it comes to elderly patients, the authors write that "physicians should inquire about sleep duration in the risk assessment of patients with hypertension...
...personal awkwardness into the mix, the potential for embarrassment abounds.The first, and mildest, of the many side effects of these unbalanced relationships is the accidental wave. Having occurred more times than I would like to admit, the accidental wave results from momentarily forgetting that the athletes you write or cheer about do not know you as well as you know them. For example, last year in the Yard, I spotted an individual on one of the teams I consistently cover. Approaching him, who I could easily pick out in a crowd while rattling off his impressive rookie statistics, I smiled...
...stems from how much you identify with this person. In the meantime though, use it to your advantage that this one is a chronic self-contradictor. Recycle his bullshit into yours. 3) Avoiding eye contact with the TF after an impossible question’s been asked: Head down. Write. Write as much as you can in that notebook of yours and don’t look up. This screams “genius-flowing-no-interruptions-plz.” Practice your signature or write down the name of every person you were smarter than in high school...
...Berlin or Paris or some pueblo in Spain, and I'd leave with someone's address scribbled on the back of a paperback book or on a pack of rolling papers. It was the polite thing to do, though no one was really expected to sit down and write a letter. Now you get an e-mail the next day saying, "I saw your tour schedule on your website. Put me on the guest list tonight!" Or worse, "I am coming to visit you in New York...