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...Uninhibited. Ah, those people who come on by the room at 1 a.m. with thoughts of hitting the town, who suggest Tuesday nights out for no good reason at all and snowball fights and walks in the rain. Who smile, start random conversations, send wacky e-mail messages. A special shout out to the zany dressers among you--so great to have something fun to look at in class or in the dining hall...
...Obsessed. Ain't it great to feel like you have a good sense of perspective? However misguided that sentiment might be? Here's to those who push it a little far with whatever their calling might be: people, random causes, personal missions. Who remind you, for whatever reason, that you're handling it all just fine...
...mail and the hectic rush. Eating a meal in the dining hall but two seats away from an intense conversation is good stuff. And, while we're on dining hall conversation topics, I'd also like to offer my appreciation for the folks who talk about really random stuff in really loud voices. The other day I overheard a very heated argument about the origin of the word pencil. Hmmm. That's great procrastinating trivia. I appreciate...
...even sometimes hilarious, to have these lives of old stars (especially Taylor's) to carry with us into the new millennium. Gerald Clarke has done a fine, if sad, job on Judy Garland (Get Happy; Random House). Esther Williams has published an unexpectedly spirited memoir (The Million Dollar Mermaid; Simon & Schuster) in which she reveals, among other things, that she did not marry the ripple-jawed Jeff Chandler in the '50s because he liked to dress up in women's clothes ("You're too big to wear polka dots," she told...
...such a phenomenon on that side of the Atlantic that she has even reviewed herself. At 21, she scored a reported $400,000, two-book deal on the strength of 100 pages that she churned out while cramming for finals at Cambridge University. That initial effort became White Teeth (Random House; 448 pages; $24.95), a book that has finally made it to the U.S. side of the ocean and that Smith describes in the British arts magazine Butterfly as "the literary equivalent of a hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year...