Letters to the Editor
Natsmom
Published Letters: 6
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Lack of respect for other religions
[Read the article: I've had three miscarriages and my husband won't wear a yarmulke]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The husband is a total jerk. Perhaps this poor woman should move on.
Anyone entering a synagogue for services (unless it is an extremely liberal congregation) should wear a yarmulke as a sign of respect. I say this, even though I am Catholic. Just as when I visited mosques in the Middle East and in Northern Africa, I covered my head with a scarf, removed my shoes, and wore clothing with significant coverage so that my arms and legs were covered. Acceding to the customs and wishes of Muslims didn't make me a Muslim. Nor did it cause any conflict with my psyche, or make me feel as if I were not being true to my beliefs.
What this guy is doing is almost as bad as me trying to waltz into a mosk in a tank top and mini skirt and high heel shoes.
Sounds like there's more that's damaged in this husband than his mutated sperm. Just what kind of father would he make, especially when the wife has been clear about wanting to raise her children in her faith?
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I'm female and I loved this movie
[Read the article: "American Gangster"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@Grenville: Excuse me, but Ridley Scott directed "Blade Runner" -- one of the all-time classics! "Alien" is not his only good film.
And "American Gangster" may have a few flaws, but overall, I really enjoyed this film. There are some amazing performances -- especially by Denzel and Ruby Dee. I hope they are nominated. The film is beautifully photographed and the entire look is very authentic. But most of all, this is a true story that I found very engrossing. I was captivated by Frank Lucas's story -- avoiding the middle man and smuggling pure heroin through military planes carrying coffins from Vietnam, and how he built a NINE figure empire in 1960s Harlem, and yet remained under the radar for so many years.
(Some of the things about which Zacharek complains are factual events that actually happened -- at least according to the magazine article, "The Return of Superfly," which inspired the making of this film. So if Zaillian had changed the facts in his script, then Zacharek probably would have complained that the script was factually inaccurate!)
This has not been a stellar year for movie-going thus far, so I really have to say that "American Gangster" is a stand-out. It's easily the best film I've seen in '07.
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I get what she's saying... but you still need to be confident and fight the aging process every step of the way.
[Read the article: I can't stand losing my beauty as I age!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm 41, so slightly younger, but easily could have written this letter.
Here's what I think: work with what you have and be the best 40-something year old out there. So that means paying extra careful attention to working out, eating healthy foods, skincare, cosmetics, fashionable (yet age appropriate) clothes and yes, Botox. I used to not have to worry about that stuff at all. Now I care about it more than ever and pay extra attention to detail.
Maybe 20-something young men will no longer look at us and salivate, but believe me, plenty of men out there still will. So much about beauty is how you carry yourself. Confidence is sexy. And certainly gorgeous women like Cindy Crawford (my age), Demi Moore and Madonna are helping us. Sure, beauty AND fame AND extreme wealth help, but there is a new standard now. 50 is the new 40, 40 is the new 30, etc.
I am fighting that aging process every step of the way and so far, it is working. When you're sweet, flirty, have a tight bod, are well dressed and carry yourself with confidence, there are still plenty of men who will look at you with longing, and even the teenage bag boys at the supermarket will be fighting over who gets to help you out to your car.
I expect that the number of men who are attracted will shrink as I get older, but hey, why not be the hottest chick in the retirement home? It all depends on your frame of reference.
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Brilliant
[Read the article: I'm a suburban husband in my 40s and I think I'm getting depressed]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Cary,
Re: what you wrote before the letter --
You know how sometimes you read something so meaningful, something that strikes such a deep chord, that you have to stop dead in your tracks, ponder the words and read them again? (If it's a book, I even put it down for a few minutes.) And then sometimes you pick it up and read the passage a third or fourth time because you can't believe how much you've been touched by them?
Well, I had that rather rare experience when I read this:
"Lack of self-knowledge is truly a luxury of the self-absorbed, and the truly self-absorbed are not those who reveal themselves in publication but those who hold all the cards and yet reveal nothing. It is a luxury of power to avoid introspection, to merrily skip out on the self-interrogation that leads to humility."
These words are not just meaningful to me personally. They should resonate with all of us in the crazy time we live in (don't get me started on the press corps following the Democratic presidential hopefuls...)
Thank you for this, as well as for all the careful, thoughtful, insightful work that you do.