The List arrives Jan. 1. From the 1980 List:
OUT: Racquetball
IN: Squash
Tweet your OUTs and INs for 2013 using #TheList2013.
"When people ask me how I can remain proud of supporting Ronald Reagan in 1980 and also proud of supporting Barack Obama in 2012, I can simply say: there is no contradiction. Reagan was right for his time; Obama is right for his. Both conservatism and liberalism have a role to play in guiding America toward balance and success. They exists as traditions that help correct each other’s excesses."
From the Style archives comes this sumptuous saga of being young in D.C. and heading for the Eastern Shore, written 32 years ago next week by current New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller. Leave your brains on the Bay Bridge…
Jane Lynch, Christmas 1980. From Flavorwire’s preview of her new memoir.
“I had all four of my impacted wisdom teeth taken out while I was at Cornell, and I couldn’t drink for a while after the surgery because I was wiped out. I realized then that I had boozed it up every single day since my senior year of high school. … I’d think nothing of tossing back a six-pack of Miller Lite — anything to get that merciful buzz.”
