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Accustomed to Harvard students’ propensity to date sparingly and marry older, I was floored to discover, while catching up on hometown gossip, that many of the people I had gone to high school with were planning to get married in the next few years. Their high school relationships, which I previously viewed as mere juvenile affairs, had become more than that—they were the beginnings of their future...
...Some things get smaller, like the print in their summer reading books, and the time we get to have them to ourselves. As they get older, we have the share them more, both with their friends and with their need for solitude. They prize these brief but recurring alliances with their Summer Friends. They've never see each other in school clothes, don't know who threw up in math class, don't know who sits where in the cafeteria...
...loves to drink, dance and tell ribald jokes - and he has been Fidel's most trusted No. 2 since they were guerrillas fighting in Cuba's eastern Sierra Maestra in the 1950s. But Raul enjoys little if any of the mystical popularity that Fidel still retains, at least among older Cubans, and which has helped keep him in power since his 1959 revolution. That's a big reason why the government in recent months has engineered a p.r. makeover for Raul that included a lengthy article in the official mouthpiece, Granma, highlighting his warm and fuzzy side as a family...
...that Allen's new film is pretty lame does not exactly qualify as a, well, scoop. That verdict has become distressingly routine. The new movie recalls older, better ones in its attempts at fantasy and its cameo by Death, but it is deficient as a mystery (it leaves unsolved the premature death that sets the tale in motion) and as a character study (we haven't a clue about what makes Peter tick...
...clear we can't return to the days of Gigi and Daddy Long Legs and Funny Girl, when gawky young women were transformed into Givenchy-wearing lovelies by suave, much older men who danced well. Steve Martin tried that last year with shopgirl. In the scene where he puts his hand on Claire Danes' naked back, audience members around me practically reached for their cell phones to dial child services. Meanwhile, the vicissitudes of show biz have done in the witty Spencer Tracy--Katharine Hepburn bickerfests, because they require people to actually pay attention. And let's face...