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Alfa Romeo's MiTo reviewed
It may be the smallest Alfa Romeo on the market, but the MiTo is still a classy little motor that will turn heads from Mirdif to Milan
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- The MiTo looks like a getaway car you'd see in an arty Italian heist movie.
It's hard to picture an Alfa Romeo without thinking of seduction, romance, perhaps a cravat-wearing Italian count zipping around the serpentine roads of the Bergamo Alps on his way to a lunch date with a woman who looks like a youthful Monica Bellucci. And it's not just because it shares a name with the protagonist of Shakespeare's most famous love story. Thanks to some wise casting decisions, Alfa Romeo has bestowed a rakish charm on several of cinema's most intriguing characters.
Picture Edward Fox's ice-veined assassin in The Jackal, bedding an auburn-haired beauty in a posh country hotel before bumping her off to cover his tracks. He wouldn't have got anywhere near her had he pulled up to the hotel's driveway in a dilapidated Ford Cortina rather than that beautiful white Giulietta Spider.
Then there's Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate. Cinema's most famous toyboy might have impressed Mrs Robinson with his boyish charm, but she must have been just as won over by his flashy wheels – another Spider, this time in a bullseye red. Even James Bond has driven one, stealing a graphite-coloured GTV6 in 1983's Octopussy. So there's no disputing Alfa Romeo's appeal. Its cars are indisputably cool and have more sex appeal than one of Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga-bunga girls'.
The compact – some might say entry-level – MiTo does well to retain all these qualities. Despite its size and relatively small engine, it's inimitably an Alfa. It's got the non-centralised number plate, the classic inverted triangle front grill with the famous logo (based on the coat of arms of the Visconti family, who were old Milanese rulers) and a retro sportiness that is most evident in the distinctive interior with its abundance of red panelling.
The manufacturers should be commended for not overloading the car with switches and buttons. Seriously, what kind of man needs built-in seat massage functions and a steering wheel that administers tiny electric shocks when you exceed the speed limit (OK, the latter doesn't exist yet but you know it's only a matter of time).
Some of us like our cars a bit more minimalist. We spend all day pushing buttons on the office computer. The last thing we need is for our car to be like a PC on wheels. The MiTo may look like a getaway car you'd see in an arty Italian heist movie, but there's a little hesitation in getting out of the blocks when the lights turn green.
Its twin-clutch transmission sounds like an impressive bit of technology (something to do with not losing power while shifting gears) but doesn't bring that much to the table apart from reducing fuel consumption and C02 emissions. Still, whatever its foibles, it's an Alfa Romeo and with that comes a heritage and romantic aura that most car brands would kill for. You don't need to be an international assassin or a playboy to get away with driving this car – but it helps.
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The MiTo was originally going to be called the Furiosa after a competition to name it was run in 2007. However, in 2008, Alfa Romeo announced that the name would instead be "MiTo", an abbreviation of the cities Milano (Milan) and Torino (Turin), because it was designed in the former and was to be assembled in the latter.
Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson once said that "nobody can call themselves a true petrolhead" until they have owned an Alfa Romeo.
In the Ian Fleming novel Moonraker, James Bond finds himself racing with a young man driving an Alfa Romeo while he pursues the villain Hugo Drax in a Bentley Mark IV.
Alfa Romeo MiTo
Engine: 1.4litre
Horsepower: 135bhp
Transmission: Automatic
0-100kph: 8.2 sec
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Oklahoma football: Sooners roll to 41-20 victory over Texas Tech behind Landry Jones, defense
Full-on panic consumed Sooner Nation after a home loss to Kansas State two weeks ago. With the Big 12 stalwarts awaiting on OU's schedule, fans asked, just how many games might this team — preseason ranked No. 4 — lose?
Then came Saturday, when the No. 17 Sooners dominated previously unbeaten Texas Tech across the board in a 41-20 rout.
"In today's world, (fans are) up and down," said Sooners coach Bob Stoops. "That's what fans do. We don't much care about that.
"I'm proud of our players for the resolve ... to come back and play a good football team on the road, and play like they did."
With the convincing win, Oklahoma won at Jones Stadium for the first time since 2003 and exacted revenge on those responsible for an embarrassing home loss last season.
The Sooners also completely flipped the script on the rest of their season, beginning next Saturday in the Cotton Bowl for the annual Red River Rivalry with Texas.
"Every week, it seems like the guys are working harder," said sophomore backup quarterback Blake Bell, who scored twice Saturday from the Belldozer package.
"I feel like our preparation is getting better, and we need to keep that going as we hit this stretch."
Against a Tech defense that entered Saturday ranked No. 1 nationally in total defense and passing defense, the Sooner offense came out guns blazing.
Much-maligned quarterback Landry Jones led Oklahoma on a 12-play, 75-yard game-opening drive, capped with a 13-yard touchdown pass to Justin Brown. It was the Sooners' first touchdown on an opening drive this season.
"We started the game off right," Jones said. "We wanted to start fast, and whenever we got the ball, we wanted to go down and score."
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a resident of Foothill High School
on Oct 27, 2011 at 9:46 am
if you don't hear from anyone soon to claim him, take him to a vet or the animal shelter to have him checked for a chip. Most dogs are chipped these days.
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Oct 27, 2011 at 11:21 am
Is it a male or a female? I saw an add in the Pennysaver for a lost Yorkie. I called the people and their dog is still missing but it is a purebred.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Oct 28, 2011 at 8:47 am
Maybe a Lost & Found category would be good to have here.
I see roaming pets occasionally and have found key chains and other seemingly lost items without knowing what to do.
a resident of Mission Park
on Oct 28, 2011 at 10:23 am
Please file a found dog report ASAP with East County Animal Shelter (803 7040 they open at 1130) and the Pleasanton PD (931 5100)
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There were two big surprises Tuesday night: Ingo Rademacher corralled enough of the soap vote to stay out of the bottom three and Kellie and Derek were in jeopardy.
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Okay, cue the "told ya so." Sean Lowe was bounced Tuesday from Dancing with the Stars.
Lowe and partner Peta Murgatroyd had the low scores heading into Tuesday night's elimination. In the exit package, Peta confessed she thought they'd be booted in the first four weeks, and gave credit to Lowe for hanging in there longer than she predicted.
Sean said he was blessed, had made friends and was still a normal guy from Dallas. His fiancée, Catherine, can now drag him away from all of those scantily-clad dance divas.
The bigger surprises were that Ingo Rademacher corralled enough of the soap vote to stay out of the bottom three Tuesday night and that Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough somehow slipped into jeopardy. Kellie and Derek dazzled the studio audience and two of the judges Monday night with a dramatic and theatrical paso doble. The only one who didn't like their dance was head judge Len Goodman, who busted them down to a "7."
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According to the indictments, which are class A misdemeanors that carry a maximum sentence of 2 to 5 years on each count, Varney is accused of knowingly causing unprivileged physical contact with the child when she put soap and pepper in the special education student's mouth and also flicked a book at the child's face.
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Chapter One
Jack was a movie star, which meant he was granted some latitude in the outrageous behavior department. Nevertheless, when he showed up sweaty and stoned to Lindsey's thirtieth birthday party, punched the overly solicitous maitre d' in the nose, and vomited into the potted gladiolus lining Torre's knee-high windowsills before passing out into a chair at our table, no one was amused. Not Lindsey, who said, "Screw this," and walked over to the bar for another shot of vodka. Not Chuck, who tossed the ice from his drink and mine into his napkin and, cursing Jack under his breath, ran into the kitchen to tend to the maitre d'. Not Alison, who jumped out of her seat and anxiously began trying to revive Jack by gently slapping his face and applying a wet cloth to his forehead, urgently saying over and over again, "Oh my god, Jack, wake up." And not I, who, lacking any other positive course of action, got up from the table and walked through the disapproving hush of well-dressed diners to join Lindsey at the bar.
Well, to tell the truth, I was somewhat amused. How often, after all, did you see that sort of thing in real life.
"You okay, Lindsey?" I asked, as she threw her head back and killed the vodka shot. Somewhere in the background, what sounded like Yanni or some other music on sedatives was being faintly piped into invisible speakers.
"Comparatively speaking, I would say I'm doing great," she said, casting her eyes in the direction of Jack and Alison. "What a shithead."
"Two more," I called to the bartender, who managed to stop oglingLindsey from under his eyebrows long enough to comply.
"You think anyone recognizes him?" I said, looking out across the restaurant.
"Who cares?"
"Here's to you, birthday girl." We clinked glasses and downed the shots.
"I think they'd be making a bigger deal if they knew who he was," Lindsey observed. "It's not every day you get to watch a bona fide movie star destroy, his life."
"He's lucky he hasn't been arrested."
"The night's young."
"I hope the maitre d' is okay," I said, grimacing as I recalled the lurching punch, the snapping sound Jack's fist and the maitre d's face had produced in their collision. Jack's punches usually had the benefit of accompanying THX sound effects. In real life the sound was startling in its lack of resonance, but somehow more imbued with violence because of it.
"Do you think it would be possible," Lindsey said to the bartender, "for you to stop staring at my breasts for a little while?"
The bartender, a fortyish guy with a goiter and a handlebar mustache, gasped and quickly moved further down the bar. He pulled out a dish rag and began meticulously scrubbing an invisible dirt spot. "You sure you're okay?" I asked.
"He wasn't even being subtle about it," she said, annoyed.
"So it wasn't the staring, but the sloppy execution that bugged you."
"Shut up, Ben."
At that point, Chuck returned from the kitchen, his forehead dappled in sweat beneath his receding hairline. "Sweet Jesus, it's hot in there." He ordered a club soda on ice, which is what he always drank when he was operating the following morning. The bartender served him without making eye contact, and then quickly retreated to the other end of the bar.
"How's the maitre d'?" I asked.
"He'll live. He's got a contusion on the bridge of his nose and it'll hurt him to sneeze for a few days. I told him I'll phone in a prescription for him. How's Hollywood doing?"
We all looked over to the table, where Alison had finally revived Jack, and was force-feeding him a glass of water, most of which was ending up in dark, damp spots on his brown shirt. The restaurant's dim lighting lent a jaundiced pallor to his already ashen complexion, making him appear gaunt and sickly. "He's looked better," I said truthfully.
"Dude, I've seen homeless junkies that looked better," Chuck snorted.
"Spare us the lurid details of your social life."
"Eat me," Chuck said with a smirk. Chuck had somehow missed the stage where we all outgrew salutations like `dude' and `eat me,' and he clung to those anachronisms tenaciously, as if they might somehow slow down the balding process.
"There's a shot for the tabloids." Lindsey interrupted us, turning back to the bar, the track lighting picking out her blond highlights in a glimmering halo as her head moved.
"I think we'd better get him out of here," I said. "If someone recognizes him, we'll be watching this on Entertainment Tonight."
"It would serve him right," Lindsey said as we got up from the bar.
"What's the point of being a famous movie star if no one recognizes you?" Chuck grumbled.
"Look at him," I said. "I barely recognize him myself."
It was true. Jack's usually bright blond hair was in a matted, greasy mess above his Gucci shades, and he wore four or five days' growth of a beard. It was hard to believe that this was the same man whose face (and body, always the body) had been on every major magazine cover at one time or another over the last few years, the same guy who reduced tabloid journalists to trite adjectives like "heartthrob" and "hunk." But his grungy appearance that night would have done nothing to change that perception. Jack often went out looking like he hadn't showered in a week. It was a Hollywood thing. All the stars were doing it lately, if the candid shots in Entertainment Weekly and Movieline were any indication. It was their way of saying, "Even when I look like shit I'm beautiful." Which, in Jack's case, was undeniably true. His essence shone through the layers of grime—the perfect green eyes, the exquisitely carved cheekbones, the casual, unconscious grace with which he threw his lean body around. On your best day, you'd be lucky to look like Jack with smallpox.
As we approached the table, Alison looked away, but not before I saw that there were tears in her eyes. I nudged Lindsey. "Take her outside."
After the women left, Chuck and I took seats on either side of Jack, who was now sitting up, looking bleary-eyed but only slightly befuddled. "Do you think we can get out of here without any further incident?" I asked him.
"Sorry, guys," Jack said with a sheepish, million-dollar smile. Then, concerned, "Did I hit someone?"
"You whacked the maitre d'," I said.
"What was he doing?"
"Bleeding, mostly."
"Shit." He examined his knuckles with contempt, as if they had acted independently of him. "I knew I was too wrecked to come, but I really wanted to make it to Lindsey's party."
"Mission accomplished, dude," Chuck said.
"Fuck, my head hurts," Jack said, leaning back and rubbing his temples.
Chuck suddenly leaned forward and squeezed Jack's nose between his thumb and forefinger. Jack bolted upright in pain and swatted away Chuck's hand. "Asshole!"
"I thought that might hurt," Chuck said, with a modicum of satisfaction.
"Cocaine?" I asked.
"Definitely, man," Chuck said. "Leaves the nasal passages very raw."
"Not heroin?"
"Could be," Chuck answered. "But his behavior is much more consistent with a cocaine habit."
"Shit, Jack," I said, instantly depressed. "Coke?"
He was spared the necessity of a reply because at that moment the manager arrived, accompanied by two burly kitchen workers, to kick us out of the restaurant.
That was when we first thought Jack might be in serious trouble.
Of course, it wasn't the first time it had crossed our minds that Jack might be something other than drug free, but how do you distinguish a genuine addiction from standard celebrity behavior? What major Hollywood star didn't trash the occasional Plaza suite, or get snapped by the paparazzi outside the Viper Room looking dazed and unkempt? If the warning flag went up every time a movie star cut a little too loose they'd have to install revolving doors at the Betty Ford Clinic. Still, in retrospect, Jack had seemed somewhat withdrawn over the last few months, hurried and antsy on the phone, speaking the way you do when you've got a long distance call on the other line or you'd just stepped out of the shower when the phone rang. He was distracted and tense, not at all like the Jack we knew. But an asking price of twelve million per film is bound to come with some pressure. The tabloid vultures had been circling for months now, searching (read: yearning) for any sign of a meltdown, but as Jack's friends we felt duty-bound to ignore the reports. No one wants to believe they need the mass media to stay in touch with a friend.
The irony was that .Jack had never been interested in acting. For him, stardom came with the same serendipitous ease that everything else did. In college he would wander aimlessly into a party on his way home from a late evening jog, unshaven, his hair plastered to his scalp with sweat, visible pit stains on his ratty NYU sweatshirt, and he'd leave an hour later with any one of the multitude of girls who practically climbed over each other to make themselves available to him. He didn't plan it; he never planned anything. Things just happened for Jack. If he ever thought about it, he would have assumed that it was the same for everyone. But he never thought about it. You wanted to resent him, or even hate him a little, but how could you begrudge someone his innate gifts when he wasn't even aware of them? He lived in complete oblivion to his own charms, which, of course, made him all the more charming.
In our senior year Jack took a part-time job waiting tables in the Violet Cafe. His financial aid agreement stipulated that he work twenty hours a week. One day he served a frappacchino to some guy who was on the fast track at one of the major studios. The guy knew someone who knew someone, and within a few weeks he'd arranged a screen test. It was almost inevitable. Right after Thanksgiving Jack got a S.A.G. card and a walk-on part in a Harrison Ford thriller. Some on-site rewrites gave him three additional lines and a twelve-second gunfight sequence in which he blew away a Chinese body-builder before getting shot himself. It took three weeks in LA for Jack to shoot his scenes, and he came back disappointed that he didn't get to meet Harrison Ford. "He wasn't even there," Jack said bitterly. "He's already working on another movie."
A casting agent working on a modestly budgeted action movie for Miramax called Blue Angel saw the Ford movie when it came out a few months later and liked the way Jack held a fake gun. Jack was cast in the lead role for Blue Angel for which he was paid scale, and he flew out to Hollywood to begin preproduction. Blue Angel was the sleeper hit of the year and the trades anointed Jack Hollywood's next great action star. None of us was greatly surprised when he didn't come home to graduate.
I once asked Jack what he'd been planning to do before he was discovered. "What do you mean?" he asked.
"You were majoring in sociology, which is pretty much the equivalent of majoring in unemployment," I said. "What did you plan on doing after college?"
He frowned at me, clearly perplexed by the question. "I don't know," he said, running his fingers through his perfect hair. "I would have thought of something."
"Don't you ever worry about the future?" I asked.
Jack shrugged. "This is the future," he said.
When we left the restaurant Jack, one of People magazine's Fifty Most Beautiful People of 1999, puked all over himself, so Alison got him into his limo to take him back to his hotel, insisting, as he climbed in on all fours, that we didn't have to come along. Lindsey, Chuck, and I went to Moe's, a bar Chuck knew on the Upper East Side, one of those places that carefully spreads sawdust across the floor every night so as to seem like a genuine dive. For a surgeon, Chuck certainly got out a lot. He seemed to know the majority of the women in the place, and got a kiss hello from the bartender, who looked like a supermodel fallen on harder times. Jack may have been the movie star, but Chuck's life was a movie. Or at least a beer commercial.
While Chuck hit on some barely legal girls at the bar, Lindsey and I took a table in the back and ordered some kamikazes and a pitcher of Sam Adams to chase. "How's Alison?" I asked. I had to shout above the jukebox, which was playing one of those annoyingly catchy novelty songs that have slowly been replacing real music on the radio. The fact that I occasionally discovered myself humming along only intensified my dislike for the music.
"Still loves him, for all the good that does either one of them," she said, pouring beer into the plastic cups. "She thinks he's reaching the breaking point."
"What do you think?"
"I don't know. That was a pretty ugly display, even by movie star standards."
I nodded in agreement. "He's seriously messed up."
We drank in silence for a minute. "How's Sarah?" she asked.
"Are you inquiring into her health?"
"Forget it. I'm sorry."
I looked over to the bar, where Chuck was laughing it up with a brunette in a sleeveless blouse so tight I could make out the outline of her navel from where I was sitting. The light was causing a gleam on Chuck's head just above the point where his hairline continued to defy the daily assaults of Rogaine. He was in a desperate race with his hair, determined to bed as many women as possible before it disappeared altogether.
A few weeks earlier Chuck and I had gone down to Atlantic City for the weekend and I'd come into our room at the Trump Casino Hotel to find him standing in front of the bathroom mirror in a towel, using an eyedropper to apply Rogaine across his scalp. It was like inadvertently stumbling upon a deeply private ritual, like that scene in The Empire Strikes Back when the officer walks in on Darth Vader with his mask off. Chuck's hair, still wet from the shower, was standing up in jagged spikes, his pink scalp visible through the pithy strands like exposed tissue. He turned to me with an embarrassed grin, the eyedropper still poised over his head like a conductor's baton and said, "What have I got to lose?"
"It must be nice," Lindsey said, indicating Chuck. "He's able to find someone to hit on everywhere he goes."
"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail," I said. Her eyes smiled at me from over the rim of her beer glass.
"What do you think he's after?" she asked me, putting down the glass. I shot her a look. "Other than the obvious," she said, correcting herself. "I mean, why do you think he's so determined to sleep around so much? In college, okay. It's an acceptable rite of passage, but at thirty it's a tad ..."
"More like pathetic," she said.
"I don't know," I said wearily. I took a sip of beer and held it in my mouth, letting the microscopic air bubbles tickle my tongue as they popped. "Maybe Chuck just hasn't found the right person."
"How would he know? He's gone before the sheets dry. He's got more of a Peter Pan complex than you do. His actually includes flying out the window before daybreak."
I laughed. "First of all, shut up," I said. "Second of all, I think it's more of a James Bond complex. He's not doing it to keep feeling young. I think he does it to feel like a real man."
Unlike Lindsey and Alison, who only met him in college, I knew that it hadn't always been this way for Chuck, which was probably why I cut him more slack than they did. We'd grown up together, gone through elementary school and high school together, where things had been anything but easy for him. From early childhood through our junior year of high school, Chuck was easily the most overweight kid in the class. Not grotesquely fat, but comically plump in a way that always made him look somewhat unkempt. He wasn't singled out for persecution the way it happens in those John Hughes movies, but he still suffered, especially when it came to girls. His wit made him popular with them to a point, but when it came to pushing for a girlfriend, he got the "just friends" speech every time. In high school he finally experienced some growth spurts, which, combined with some brutally disciplined dieting, brought his weight down into the normal range. But by then it was too late. He'd been a blimp for the first two years of high school, and that's how he was universally perceived for the last two. At sixteen, perception is nine-tenths of the law.
College, though, was a clean slate and Chuck was like a horse right out of the gate. Maybe it was compensation, or revenge on all women for past rejections, or maybe it was just the store of repressed sexual urges that he could finally have gratified with someone else after years of flying solo, what he shamelessly referred to as "roping one off." However you wanted to explain it, Chuck couldn't believe how easy it suddenly was to get laid, and he went about it with reckless abandon, as if he'd been granted a free shopping spree.
At some point toward the end of college, Chuck began losing his hair, and in his mind it was as if a giant clock had started ticking. It must have seemed terribly unfair to him that he'd worked so hard to shed one physical obstacle only to inherit what he perceived as another, completely beyond his control.
Lindsey and I watched as Chuck drew the girl closer to him and whispered something to her. She laughed with her entire body and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "Well, he's got some skills," Lindsey said. "I guess you have to give him that."
"If only we could get him to use his powers for good," I said distractedly and drank another swallow of my Sam Adams.
"You look sad," she said.
"I'm just pensive."
"What are you thinking about?"
"Whether or not to be sad."
"Same old Ben."
We drank in silence for a while.
"We're getting divorced," I finally said.
"Oh!" She seemed genuinely surprised. "I knew you were separated, but I thought it was just a temporary glitch. That you'd worked it out."
"I don't know," I said, even though I did. "I think maybe the working it out was the temporary glitch."
"I'm sorry," she said, truly meaning it.
"Subject change, please," I said.
"How's your writing going?" she asked. Wrong subject.
"At Esquire?" I said. "Fine."
"You writing any features yet?"
"Nope. I'm still the list-maker." Esquire was big on lists. 7 Crucial Stomach Exercises. 10 Little Grooming Tips For a Big Night. 30 Things You Should Know About Your Money. Before they let you graduate to real articles, you had to put in your time on the lists.
"And your novel?"
"Haven't touched it in months."
"What's the problem?"
"I have a tendency to procrastinate, but let's talk about that some other time."
"I don't know," I said, grinding an ice cube between my teeth. "I think it's the protagonist. He's too autobiographical."
"No motivation."
"Poor Ben," she offered.
"Poor Alison," I returned.
"Poor me," Lindsey said. "Thirty years old. Can you believe it?"
"I know," I said. "I turned thirty last month."
Her jaw dropped slightly in surprise, and then she turned to me with a sad smile, taking my head between her hands. "Oh shit, Benny. I totally forgot." She leaned forward and kissed me softly on the lips. "Happy birthday, Benny."
The kiss and the nickname brought me back six years, to when Lindsey and I were still together. It's an axiom of group dynamics that no circle of friends can remain a truly cohesive unit unless a handful of them are in love with each other in some twisted fashion or other. Twisted because if it were simple they'd pair off and that would be the end of the group. There was Alison's unflagging and unrequited love for Jack, conveniently disguised as maternal concern so as to keep things from getting uncomfortable. Chuck was happily in love with himself. And then there was my love for Lindsey, which started as simple lust when we first got friendly in college, but blossomed into a full-blown, hurts-so-good love that remained unspoken until after we had graduated. We both knew it was there, and we both knew that we both knew. It was evident in the way, when she kissed me hello or good-bye, that she always managed to get just the corner of my mouth. Or in the fact that whenever the five of us went out, Lindsey and I always seemed to wind up sitting together. And I was the one who walked her home at night, even though Chuck's dorm was closer. But still, despite all of the hints, neither one of us was willing to let it grow during college. I think we were afraid of not having each other anymore if it didn't work out. Or at least, that was probably her rationale. I would have been willing to risk it, if I weren't so sure of a gentle but firm rejection. I didn't get laid in college as much as Chuck, and certainly not as much as Jack, who might as well have been listed as a course requirement for entering female students, no pun intended. But I did okay for a somewhat bookish, Clark-Kent-without-the-alter-ego type, and the reason for that, I think, was that all of the feelings I had for Lindsey that were being stirred to a slow boil inside me needed somewhere else to go in the meantime.
At a party the day after our graduation, Lindsey and I were dancing, as usual just a wee bit closer than the legal limit for just friends, when she asked me, "So, Benny, what are you going to do now?"
"I told you the plan," I said. "I'm taking off a few months to write, and then I'll start interviewing at some publishing firms."
"No," she said, her lithe body coming to a complete stop as she pulled back to look me in the eye. "I. mean, what are you going to do about me?"
We were together for two perfect years, the kind that would get a sixty-second montage of film clips set to a Harry Connick Jr. song like in When Harry Met Sally. Walking through the park, kissing in the rain, clowning around at a street fair, et cetera. Two years, which was long enough for me to believe it would never end. Of course it did, though, when Lindsey panicked and decided that at twenty-four she was much too young to be settling down and it was time to get out there and see the world. She quit her job as an elementary school teacher and launched her world tour, facilitated by a brief stint as a flight attendant, and I eventually rebounded into Sarah, who had a career, goals, and a more highly developed nesting instinct.
Lindsey moved back to Manhattan around the time I got married. Over the next few years she was in a constant state of career flux, from advertising, to diamond trading on Forty-seventh Street, to teaching aerobics classes at Equinox. Mostly she temped as a receptionist while she was between jobs. Whatever it was she'd been looking for when she took off for parts unknown, she hadn't found it, which should have made me feel vindicated but only made me sad. I saw her periodically, when all of us went out, but we never got together one-on-one. Lindsey never would have suggested it since I was married, and I was scared of being alone with her because it would make it harder to deny that I'd married the wrong person. So we met in the safety of our little group, stayed in touch intermittently, and tried not to see the tragedy in the casual acquaintances we'd become.
"Ben?" Lindsey asked, bringing me back to the present.
"You're crying."
"I'm just drunk," I said.
She put her head on my shoulder and wrapped her hands around my arm. "Poor Ben."
Posted August 4, 2000
After reading Plan B I thought over my life in a great way. Like the character in the book, I'm also in my thirties and a crossroad in my life. I related a lot to the character of Lindsey. Bouncing from job to job not really knowing what she want in the life. And most of all, the guy she liked the most wasn't really sure if he wanted her. Also, I haven't known a 'true friendship' story like this since I saw the movie, 'St. Elmo's Fire'. I was happy at the end of the book when the main character, Ben while closed the door on the past and looked forward to loving his future.
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Posted January 10, 2013
I'm only 20-years-old so I know I didn't understand the characters' feelings about their life as much as those past the 30-mark did, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. It's funny, smart, and most importantly entertaining. I tend to grow bored with books that don't involve murder or supernatural events, but this one kept me through the end. Just ordered another book by Tropper, can't wait to read it.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted July 27, 2011
A well-written story about friendships and life.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 28, 2011
I think that if I would've read this book 5 years ago I wouldn't have been able to relate to it the way I can now. Being 28 I can identify with the characters and where they were in their lives. I found the plot to be a bit trite but not entirely unrealistic.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted June 16, 2007
I read quite a lot of books but this book was horrible. Why does this book have to be so digusting??? I don't know why people even liked this book. The characters seem to swear every third word. DO NOT BUY THIS DISSAPPOINTING BOOK!!!!!!!!!
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Posted June 30, 2001
I needed to take a break from the world of Academia - wanted to read something fun - but not junky. Browsing through Barnes and Nobles I found 'Plan B.' Looked interesting, proved to be a fun, page turning book. The writing is very authentic and believable, hitting close to home. Finished it in 2 days, ended with a smile and a little tear. What more could you want from a summer read?Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted February 27, 2000
I saw the title of the book and began to laugh. I always use the phrase PLAN B, so I just bought the book without thinking twice. I read it in 2 dyas and loved it !!! I am past 30 and everything the protagonists go through is so real. I am looking forward to reading another book by this author.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted February 22, 2000
The timing for this book's release is nearly perfect, as 80's pop culture has recently found retro popularity. But unlike nearly every other book you read that examines pop culture, this book has a sincere, unpretentious heart. The narrator, Ben, is a likeable Everyman who can't quite get over the urge to keep living in the 80's. The theme, however, of this book takes a serious examination of Generation X's growing fascination with celebrity. Toward the beginning, one of the characters, Lindsey, says, 'Our generation is the first for whom pop culture is our sole frame of reference.' Real life experience is compared to and validated by the world of television and film. Paralleling this theme is a plot that concerns four friends exercising their concern for a fifth friend who is an international film star--a veritable icon of pop culture. The ending will leave you smiling and cheering for Jonathan Tropper's ability to find hope and peace in what other's have called an angry generation of people. A fine debut, by all respects. I look forward to more work from Tropper.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted February 9, 2000
The Best thing about this book is the narrator, who is funny and ironic without being nasty or whiny. He rattles off hilarious one liners and touching, personal confessions with equal eloquence. The plot's fun, and moves along nicely, but it's really the narrator and his realiztically drawn friends, all dealing with life at thirty, who make this book so good. When I finished, I felt like I'd made a new friend, and I've certainly found a new author to watch for.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted February 1, 2000
Plan B grabs you from the first sentence and doesn't let go. At times it's laugh out loud funny, thanks to the author's perfect ear for dialogue and comic timing. He fires off hysterical one-liners without a single cliche (well maybe one or two.) Reminded me of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. This is really how twenty and thirty-somethings speak to each other! At other times, Plan B is quietly moving, as Tropper artfully depicts the fears and insecurities that come with turning thirty without having accomplished very much. And while the front story, about a group of friends who kidnap a move star to rehabilitate him from his cocain addiction, is a bit contrived, it is so entertaining that you can forgive the author this one conceit. All in all, a great read. Catch it before the inevitable movie!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 23, 2000
If you have ever turned 30 or are considering turning 30, Plan B is one book you absolutely do not want to miss! At once both poignant and humorous, this touching novel picks up the story of five friends taking stock of their lives as they approach the age of 30. Smooth and witty prose - but completely real and unpretentious - make this first novel an absolute treat, and clearly designates Jonathan Tropper as a young writer to watch over the coming years.Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
Posted January 17, 2000
What a great read! A book about a group of friends in their late twenties dealing with the realities of adulthood, this is one of the most entertaining, humorous and truly touching novels I've read recently. Tropper is a real talent!Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.
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The Star's foreign desk covers the best stories from the around the globe, updated throughout the day.
Dead Whale Diaries: Four fun facts from day four (and one sad one)
I know I said that yesterday was Skullmas Eve , which would make today Skullmas. I lied.
The Royal Ontario Museum-led crew disassembling the dead blue whale here in Woody Point, Newfoundland, didn't get to the skull today -- yesterday's rain slowed things down. But they got really close. Tomorrow is definitely Skullmas.
Here are a bunch of facts from today, Sunday, to amuse you in the meantime.
1. A mature blue whale's aorta is absolutely massive. It's easily a foot in diameter. It's also shockingly heavy: the sample pictured here was hard for me to lift (also due to slippery goop all over it). As one of the crew here commented, "A baby could crawl through that thing." If you're having a hard time imagining how truly gigantic blue whales are, picture blood rushing through an aorta this big on its way to the whale's heart.
2. The best way to disconnect a fin from a decomposing blue whale is with heavy machinery. Blue whale fins have long bones inside that look not unlike human fingers (they're even articulated). The fin bones connect to the scapula -- shoulder blade -- by means of big round ball joint. Our whale's ball joint is the size of a beach ball. The crew managed to remove the fin all in one piece by slicing the meat away around the ball joint, tying one end of a rope around the fin and another to the bucket of a front-end-loader, and having the loader lift its bucket and back up until the whole fin gave way.
3. The best way to disconnect a rib from a decomposing blue whale is by hauling on it. Enough said. Here's a short video I made to prove it .
4. Something traumatic happened to this blue whale. It's still unclear exactly how she died. But the vertebrae uncovered today are mottled purplish-black, suggesting they were stained with blood, one of the crew told me. It could be from an old injury, but it could also be from being crushed to death in ice.
5. The longer you're around a dead blue whale, the sadder it gets . It's obviously been fun to revel in the unparalleled grossness of the removal process. But more and more, as I see her massive ribs coming out or her massive aorta bagged up for research, I'm feeling overwhelmed by what a majestic animal she would have been while alive.
Sorry to end on such a downer. Just remember: Skullmas is right around the corner.
For a recap of day three, click here .
For a recap of day one and two, click here .
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The Bruins were outlasted by Sabres Thursday as they took a 4-2 loss to Buffalo at First Niagara Center.
Drew Stafford broke a 2-2 tie with under six minutes to go in regulation by beating Chad Johnson on a wraparound. Tyler Myers made it 4-2 just 80 seconds later, giving the Sabres a win and Johnson his first loss in his last six starts. Johnson allowed two goals on five third-period shots.
The Sabres jumped out to a 1-0 lead on a shorthanded goal from Brian Flynn, but two goals from Brad Marchand gave the B's a 2-1 lead in the second period until the Sabres tied it on a puck that bounced off Marcus Foligno and past Chad Johnson.
Ryan Miller denied Marchand on multiple bids for a hat trick and made 30 saves in the victory for the Sabres.
The Bruins have two games left before the holiday break, as they'll host the Sabres Saturday and face the Predators next Monday in Nashville.
- Johnson's been beaten a couple times this season on wraparounds, so the B's will have to hope the book isn't out on capitalizing on their backup goaltender's lack of mobility. It certainly cost them Thursday.
- Johnny Boychuk couldn't keep the puck in the offensive zone during the power play on which the Sabres scored. With Boychuk unable to keep it in, Flynn caught up with the puck in the neutral zone and raced to the net on a breakaway before beating Johnson with a backhander.
- Patrice Bergeron took a pair of hooking penalties, twice leaving the B's to kill a penalty without one of the top penalty killers in the league. Fortunately for the Bruins, they did just fine on the PK, killing off both Bergeron penalties and scoring a goal with Bergeron on a second-period PK.
- Torey Krug's dip in production continues, as he now he now has one goal over his last 11 games. Krug took a first-period penalty for holding Stafford.
- Marchand had a better game and got results out of it. His second goal of the night was something of an accident, as he didn't get good wood on his one-timer, but that caused the puck to waffle as it made its way past Miller stick-side high.
That was also Marchand's second shorthanded goal of the last five games. He still has only four even-strength goals on the season, but scoring twice in a night might be the type of thing that gets more production.
- Not necessarily something that went right, but Matt Fraser reminded the B's that he can do more than score at the AHL level when he dropped the gloves with Foligno. Fraser fought throughout his days in the WHL and has fought four times in the AHL.
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Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the U.S. -- increased at an annual rate of 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2002, according to advance estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Thursday. In the third quarter, real GDP increased 4.0 percent.
The Bureau's fourth-quarter "advance" estimates are based on source data that are incomplete and are subject to further revision by the source agency. The fourth-quarter "preliminary" estimates, based on more comprehensive data, will be released on Feb. 28, 2003.
The major contributors to the increase in real GDP in the fourth quarter were government spending, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), equipment and software, and residential fixed investment. The contributions of these components were partly offset by negative contributions from private inventory investment, from nonresidential structures, and from exports. Imports, which are a subtraction in the calculation of GDP, increased.
The deceleration in real GDP growth in the fourth quarter primarily reflected a sharp deceleration in PCE and downturns in private inventory investment and in exports that were partly offset by a smaller decrease in nonresidential structures and by accelerations in federal government spending and in residential fixed investment. Imports increased slightly more than in the third quarter.
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