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...fact, to date, I have traveled to Norway, Albion (in the hills beyond Rome), Peru, and Moscow—towns all found within the gentrified, yokel vacationland of Maine. As I’m more or less the epitome of the cash-strapped traveler—I’m working at a summer camp, after all—living in a place called Belgrade no less (if you get past the unexploded shells…), I need to do most things on the cheap...
...Let’s be optimistic—by the end of October,” McCartney said, referring to the date by which a dean could be appointed. But she added that if necessary, “I’m prepared to serve for the [entire academic] year...
...weeks, however, bus riding has grown on me. I like watching the homes change from Bondi’s crowded cinderblock condos to Paddington’s stately Victorian terraces. I like cheering on the pigeons that must battle seagulls and egrets to secure their food. I like spotting date palms and bottlebrushes (a sort of cross between a corncob and dandelion) where I least expect them...
...Army celebrates June 14—which is also Flag Day—as its birth date because it was on that day in 1775 that a collection of soldiers camping out on Cambridge Common formally became the Continental Army...
Bewitched means to be a civilized entertainment, which occasionally it is. But the gentility of this antique sitcom cannot be recaptured at this late date. What this revival needs is a good kick in the pants. And that Ephron and friends lack the low cunning to deliver. --By Richard Schickel