The New Yorker, 2006-03-27

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"Frame Game" / Leo Carey

__ Gold is a substance of almost limitless variety; there are different karats, different thicknesses, and different alloys.. together with the bole and the burnishing, determine the final color. An alloy of silver brings a lemony tone, while a copper alloy yeilds a pinkish hue.
__ Michel Eugène Chevreul

"Alice, Off the Page" / Calvin Trillin

• "And it is possible at least to understand what Ernest Becker meant when he said something like 'To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything,' or to begin to understand the line in 'King Lear' -- 'Ripeness is all.'
• "I don't think I shall write again other than letters now," Dick Francis was quoted as saying. "So much of my work was her."
• When we were in our early thirties, it occurred to me that one way to divide the people we knew was that some of them were still dependent on their parents - financially or emotionally or some other way - and some of them had seen that role ended or even reversed.
  

Anthony Lane: Clive Owen's American accent keeps slipping like an old sock.

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