Modern Times

There is something fundamentally wrong with youth today.

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     Jennifer 8. Lee would be one of my favorite writers even if she didn't write about food, one of my favorite things. But she does and she does it damn well, with the same keen and childish curiosity that deftly straddles the edge between cheeky and puerile. Intellectual girl crush status.

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     ...The man behind the curler in every woman's purse, Mr. Shu Uemura, has died. The New York Times reported that the venerable make-up artist died December 29 in Tokyo at the age of 79. His legacy will live on in every teenage girl (and the occasional boy) who picks up his curler for the first time and says, "Hello fab!"

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The original. William Shakespeare (c. 26 April, 1564 - 23 April, 1616)

"Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones."

-T.A., III.i.4

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Klaus Nomi, performing "Cold Genius" from Purcell's "King Arthur"

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