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...eventually becomes so obsessed with his prey that he is endangering his marriage to pretty, sensible Juliana (Caroline Dhavernas). For Hanssen is something more than the mere neat freak he first appears to be. He is also both a devout, mass-every-day Catholic and an equally devout purveyor-consumer of pornography, some of which features his sweetly simple wife (with or without her consent is unclear in the film). The man gives new meaning to F. Scott Fitzgerald's notion that the test of a good mind is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts simultaneously. Which says nothing...
Starbucks? Yep. The company that brought the word venti into daily use has become a purveyor of solidly middlebrow culture to go with its joe. Beah's is the second book it has chosen to feature in its 6,000 stores. Its first was by best-selling male weepmeister Mitch Albom (he of those Tuesdays with Morrie), which suggests how far the child-soldier has moved as a phenomenon for mass consumption...
...boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square up its new men's fragrance, Burberry London, in a bottle covered with tartan fabric...
...brought her “grandmother’s crust-constructing knowledge and a fabulous sense of whimsy†to the business, according to www.petsipies.com. Hotspotter extraordinaire and Crimson editor Richard S. Beck asserted two weeks ago that “1369 Coffeehouse stands as the closest purveyor of great coffee,†but I challenge that notion. Not only does Petsi Pies make a great latte, it is closer than 1369 and serves up one heck of a slice of pie. So if you ever find me mumbling vaguely about meringue, just lead me gently to Petsi...
Fear not: the answer is a T stop away. Or you can suck it up, scenester, and march your Clarks all the way to Central Square, where 1369 Coffeehouse stands as the closest purveyor of great coffee...