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Sideswipe: April 22: Artificially ripped
21 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Famous writers and the art of saying no
Playwright Tom Stoppard sent an invitation to playwright Harold Pinter. He replied with: Thank you for your invitation to host a fundraising dinner in the private room of a top London restaurant. I would rather die. George Bernard Shaw replied to a letter from Archibald Henderson in 1930 with: A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals! Thank you for nothing. Blood sacrifices are not in my line. And when an academic invited Kurt Vonnegut to come speak to students in 2007, he didn t seems keen . I cannot be of any use to you and your students nowadays, alas, since, at 84, I resemble nothing so much as an iguana, hate travel, and have nothing to say. I might as well send a spent Roman candle in my stead. (Via Letters of Note)
Sideswipe: March 11: Prescient words on pandemic
10 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read Ten years ago by the New York Times published comments by Dr Abigail Zuger criticising certain supposedly unrealistic aspects of Contagion, Steven Soderbergh s film about a deadly pandemic sweeps the globe. The movie s screenwriter, Scott Burns, responded . We took great care to make sure our fictional story was based on real science. The world had seen more than three dozen new pandemic-ready viruses in the last three decades. The scientists who consulted on the film, along with most of their colleagues in epidemiology and virology, believe it is only a matter of time coupled with lack of preparation before the world faces a real-life pandemic like the make-believe one in the film. Dr Zuger s point that the Contagion virus or MEV-1 does not precisely replicate Nipah encephalitis, the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic or HIV/AIDS is correct. She is also right about the tr
Sideswipe: March 4: Remembering teen mags
3 Mar, 2021 03:59 PM
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Before the internet, what did teenagers do? Pore over the latest teen magazines . teen pin-up of the day, advice on how to get a boyfriend, how to be popular and, of course, makeovers . 1. I remember a page that consisted of readers accidentally showing people their sanitary towels, or sneezing while walking past their crush in the street . they were just manuals on how to get boys to notice you! (With a free clear lip gloss, of course.)
2. And having a spot was the worse thing ever. If you hadn t prevented said spot then you better go to great lengths to cover it up or your crush might see and fancy your friend instead. I unfortunately lapped all this up until I was about 15. The only thing I think I was sceptical about was the True Life Stories , which I suspect were written by people who worked at the magazine. Always a cautionary tale about getting into a car with an older
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