Word: couchful
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...school—in my case, this is less a principled abstention than it is a recognition of my tendency to procrastinate—the promise of hours of television seemed especially precious, like quinine in a malarial climate. Clutching handfuls of tissues, I dragged myself to the couch, turned on The Today Show, and settled in for a therapeutic television marathon that, I calculated, would culminate with The Price Is Right. I planned not to move until Bob Barker had reminded us all of the importance of spaying and neutering our pets...
...couch, tossing crumpled tissues into the wastebasket, the opposite danger loomed larger. That morning, The Early Show had interviewed its foreign correspondent immediately after interviewing the contestant most recently dismissed from Survivor. The odd juxtaposition startled me. I couldn’t help but wonder if both men were, in fact, stars of the same remote, contrived and engrossing genre...
...sense of peace with the dualities in her life. "There's this photo of Leonard Cohen that came out during his last record," she says. "And everybody'd been talking about how he'd been in this monastery for a while. And there he was, lounging on this couch, and he had a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other. There's a tendency to feel like 'If I say this one thing, then I can't do this other thing.' I finally realized I don't have to pick. There aren't any rules...
Just four months earlier, he had been hustling from one Philadelphia hair salon to the next, selling pound cake to women while they were being coiffed. Now Reuben Harley was reclining on a black leather couch in the midtown Manhattan recording studio of hip-hop mogul Sean (P. Diddy) Combs. The unlikely pair chatted about business, music and, most importantly, jerseys--the classic models that sports legends like Julius Erving, Nolan Ryan and Jackie Robinson used to wear...
...much psychology as history, Inventing Japan is a brisk, penetrating look at the rise and fall and rise of a nation jolted out of 250 years of isolation by the arrival in 1853 of Perry's menacing flotilla. Like others who have put modern Japan on the couch, Buruma concludes that the feverish drive to Westernize left the insular nation with a permanent identity crisis and a bad case of cultural indigestion. But his diagnosis is subtler than most: he suggests that the reactionary forces that led Japan into World War II promoted myths of Japaneseness?including the Emperor cult...