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...understands the disquieting dimensions of soap ("Most of its lifetime, a cake of soap is too small . . . It's not only too small, it's sharp around the edges"). And he knows why dogs are man's best friend ("The average dog is a nicer person than the average person...
...mysterious universal harmonies that, when slightly untuned, wrecked life on Shikasta. a small planet suspiciously similar to earth. The result of this disturbance was the dark underside of human history, which Lessing retold as much in sorrow as in anger. Now she has traveled past Zone Six to some nicer neighborhoods in her mental landscape. If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium...
...friends with mine, so one Christmas Eve at my grandmother's house I was introduced to him. I trembled with fear as I heard his name. This was the loath some man I'd been warned about? He seemed as harmless as my grand-father. In fact, he seemed nicer than my grandfather...
...buildings being converted then tended to be the nicer buildings in each area," Betty DesRosiers, a staff member in the Community Development Department, said yesterday. As a result, more of the buildings converted now contain poorer tenants, explaining the discrepancy, she added...
Julian (Richard Gere) makes his living in the nicer precincts of Los Angeles by providing sexual services to well-off middle-aged ladies. He is pretty, smartly dressed and inarticulate when any serious subject comes up; yet one can understand what a neglected wife might see in him. His power with women derives not from being aggressively male but from being ingratiatingly sweet. He is good at his work and is sufficiently self-aware to understand that his exceptional talent is ultimately self-defeating: he can give pleasure but never receive it. Indeed, the film's major psychological twist...