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Tell somebody who loves a movie that you didn't like it. See the shock and hatred in his face. "Hey, man," you say, "it's only a movie." For an instant, he could have killed you.

-- Leonard Michaels, "Kishkas"

I got a sense of this when I dared admit to an acquaintance that I disliked the 2001 movie Amélie. I told him I'd never seen a movie that ( Read more... )

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My elderly neighbor (b. 1924) got her very first hearing aids at Costco on Saturday and came over yesterday to show them off, though they're barely visible. The sound world is more 'vivid' to her now: gravel crunching underfoot, morning birdsong, the coffeemaker, the shower water, even her breathing. And she's lowered her conversational volume by ( Read more... )

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