Archive for August 2009

Where to Look for Work

From Good: The Best and Worst Cities to Look for Work. I’d quote from it, but you just have to see it for yourself.

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Laura and Rose, and the Little House

From The New Yorker: Wilder Women. William Holtz points out that Laura had been so harried by poverty and hardship-doing some of the man’s work that Almanzo couldn’t manage, in addition to her own-that she might not have had much left to give, except the example of self-denial. Rose herself could be grandiose and domineering. [...]

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Julie, Julia, and the Men They Married

From the New York Times: Full Stomachs, and Full Marriages Too. The film is food porn. (Seriously, don’t come hungry.) And Ms. Streep’s performance as the vowel-elongating chef will probably earn her another bushel of accolades and give Ms. Ephron her first hit movie in more than a decade. But it is the film’s depiction [...]

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