Word: spirits
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Another character, called "you," is on a quest to reach Lingshan, "ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid...
...this year there were no canine-related disasters. Sadie was much better behaved, in keeping with the general spirit of the holiday. She loped around in a half-hearted attempt to wait for scraps under the Thanksgiving table. While before the mere smell of turkey cooking in the oven would drive her into a frenzy, the fires of her belly had been quenched by chemicals administered to her brain...
KEVYN AUCOIN, celebrity makeup artist: "When Divine gets a black eye in John Waters' Female Trouble, she puts purple and black on the other eye to match. In the spirit of Divine, I think Bush should offset his bandage by double-piercing the opposite ear and wearing bright and spangly earrings. It worked in the '80s for new-wave bands...
...that sort of thing. The film's creators--director Phil Kaufman, writer Doug Wright (adapting his own play)--seem to think they have made a black comedy. But Kaufman, who displayed a gift for sexy literacy in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, here succumbs to an unbearable heaviness of spirit. His approach to this material is brutally horrific, vulgarly unamusing. And Rush wears the desire for another Oscar nomination on his sleeve in a puffed up, unfelt performance...
Thank you for your story on the boom in high school cheerleading [LIVING, Nov. 6]. You will never know what you have done for my daughter and the many other girls and boys across the country who devote their time, energy and spirit to a sport they love. It gives young people a sense of pride, accomplishment and determination that they will be able to utilize later in life. Involvement in this sport leaves them very little time to hang out at the malls. All the hard work of the young people and their coaches should be heralded. JANICE ROMEO...