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There is a peculiar rumor circulating that Stanley Kubrick expired while clutching a fax from a top Warner Bros. executive congratulating him on his recently screened Eyes Wide Shut . That this was a favorable missive is what makes the report so mordant, so mysterious.
On average, every third person is reading a newspaper: There are the contortionists who fold the ever-expanding Times into readable wedges, the tabloid readers (whose papers are enviably scaled for reading in motion), and a scattering of people clutching Spanish or Asian papers.
Ink does not sweat, we do not sweat ink, and even the traditional fingers clutching traditional ink-filled pens were less likely to be troubled by sweat than by chilly cramp.
It shouldn't have been a complete surprise when I walked into the elevator in my Washington office building and came upon Dick Morris clutching a book by the late Cardinal Bernardin.
(The presidential candidates, of course, are still clutching to the across-the-board cuts.)