“You cannot have moist lips in the world of birds. People misunderstand. They imagine movie clips where construction workers whistle at passing girls.”
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Touch Me
At a cocktail party in Rome, women line up for inspection. They are 30, they are 40, they are 50. They have tanned skin and plasticized breasts.
Vive La France
A "no" is a "yes" when it proves a citizenry cares enough to dirty itself by debating the future. France just showed it's in the game — and then some.
Outland
Familiarity breeds contempt. Now, Iraq is the land that time forgot.
Yo, Bacon
“Maybe ‘overshare’ is the active component in a new perfume intended to make its users believe they’re in 1940s noir movies.”
Iwo Jima
"When I did not get the meaning of the word caliber, he said, Think of a swallow expelled from eaves traveling at the speed of light."
The hand that takes
Never ignore a blinking message. “This is a voice from the past,” says a man whose hushed tones are, to [...]
Advocatus diaboli
Saints are the official celebrities of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II sensed their significance and installed a [...]
Getting it Wrong
During the recent papal death and election, a reporter for a major American daily newspaper was asked to file a [...]
Never to Thrill
"Papa vecchio," says the message from a friend. "Avevi ragione."She’s right, but only relatively speaking. I had in fact said [...]
Telefonia
There's a lot to learn from old phone books and more recent memories.