If Shakespeare had not died of a fever, the knowledge that lovers everywhere would someday be listing their age, sex and location on Internet sites to find love wouldst have vanquished him.
When the Internet dating phenomenon reared its innovative head in the mid-1990s, I thought for sure it would be a fad among a niche group of techie singles. But by 2004, the Pew Internet and American Life Survey reported that a quarter of the American population had visited one of the 800 online dating sites or chat rooms that year.
Being a hopeless romantic, I refuse to seek out cyberspace romance. I am determined to face dating in the flesh instead of summing up my existence in a text box and then consulting a list of potential Mr. Rights spit out by a database. I want to tell my kids that love is about awkward first kisses, long walks in the park and losing your train of thought when you look into your loved one’s eyes. Besides, with my luck, I would probably spend three weeks chatting with a 40-year-old overweight trucker who claimed to be a 26-year-old personal trainer. (Twelve percent of online daters are married, by the way, according to the Ashley Madison Agency Web site.)
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SOARING temperatures could lead to Bank Holiday chaos on the roads and railways over the weekend.
Weather forecasters are predicting the warmest weather of the year so far over the weekend and, according to the AA, motorists can expect to experience one of the top five busiest weekends of the year.
An AA spokesman told the News: "We are likely to see the key motorways and A-roads busier than normal on Sunday and there may be localised traffic congestion, particularly on roads leading to the coasts, national parks and other countryside spots."
Archie Robertson, chief executive of the Highways Agency, has issued his
Pleasant Holidays and the Sheraton Maui are offering reduced room rates in Garden View and Ocean View accommodations at the Sheraton Maui for all new bookings traveling November 28 through May 31, 2003. Partial Ocean View accommodations at the special rate will also be available for booking through May starting January 1, 2003.
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To describe certain situations, one can as easily reach for the word "cliche" as the word "truth."
Were it not for playwright Craig Wright's gift for sure-footed, emotionally valid dialogue, that's the choice one would face with his play "The Pavilion," now at the Rattlestick Theater in New York City.
As evidence of Wright's skill in writing characters with cross-grained dimensions, he just finished a four-year assignment co-writing many of the scripts for the television series "Six Feet Under."
"Pavilion," written in 2000 and one in a series of plays set in the small town of Pine City, Minn., has been