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# Love. Perhaps the most important. Fall in love, if you aren't already. If you have, fall in love with your partner all over again. Abandon caution and let your heart be broken. Or love family members, friends, anyone -- it doesn't have to be romantic love. Love all of humanity, one person at a time.
# Get outside. Don't let yourself be shut indoors. Go out when it's raining. Walk on the beach. Hike through the woods. Swim in a freezing lake. Bask in the sun. Play sports, or walk barefoot through grass. Pay close attention to nature.
# Savor food. Don't just eat your food, but really enjoy it. Feel the texture, the bursts of flavors. Savor every bite. If you limit your intake of sweets, it will make the small treats you give yourself (berries or dark chocolate are my favorites) even more enjoyable. And when you do have them, really, really savor them. Slowly.
# Create a morning ritual. Wake early and greet the day. Watch the sun rise. Out loud, tell yourself that you will not waste this day, which is a gift. You will be compassionate to your fellow human beings, and live every moment to its fullest. Stretch or meditate or exercise as part of your ritual. Enjoy some coffee.
# Take chances. We often live our lives too cautiously, worried about what might go wrong. Be bold, risk it all. Quit your job and go to business for yourself (plan it out first!), or go up to that girl you've liked for a long time and ask her out. What do you have to lose?
# Follow excitement. Try to find the things in life that excite you, and then go after them. Make life one exciting adventure after another (with perhaps some quiet times in between).
# Find your passion. Similar to the above tip, this one asks you to find your calling. Make your living by doing the thing you love to do. First, think about what you really love to do. There may be many things. Find out how you can make a living doing it. It may be difficult, but you only live once.
# Get out of your cubicle. Do you sit all day in front of computer, shuffling papers an
Tapping Tricks for Your iPhone
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# Tap the Status bar at the top of the screen (where the clock usually is) to return instantly to the top of long pages.
# Hold a finger on a link in Safari to get a pop-up saying where the link goes.
# Tap the bottom left or right corner to scroll left or right.
# Tap with two fingers to zoom out in Maps.
# Drag inside text boxes with two fingers to scroll without scrolling the whole page.
# Double-click the Power/Lock button to send incoming calls to your voice mail.
# Double-click the Home button in any app to bring up the iPod controls.
05.01.09
MIKE NICHOLS, the subject of a two-week retrospective starting Tuesday at the Museum of Modern Art, is not an obvious choice for a place as artsy and highbrow as the MoMA film department. MoMA retrospectives tend to be awarded to brooding European auteurs — Bernardo Bertolucci and Milos Forman were the last two — and not to commercial Hollywood directors who include on their résumé pop hits like “Working Girl,” “The Birdcage” and, just recently, “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
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The director Mike Nichols is the focus of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
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From top: Courtesy MoMA Film Stills Archive, Universal Pictures/Photofest via MoMA, MoMA Film Stills Archive, Photofest via MoMA
A Mike Nichols sampler, from top: Candice Bergen and Jack Nicholson in “Carnal Knowledge” (1971), Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (2007), Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in “The Graduate” (1967) and Al Pacino and Meryl Streep in “Angels in America” (2003).
Except for a puzzling string of duds in the mid-’70s, almost all of Mr. Nichols’s movies have made money, and a few, like “The Graduate” and “Carnal Knowledge,” have been recognized as cultural landmarks. But because of their commercial shimmer, their way of eliciting exceptional performances by top-of-the-line stars, it’s sometimes hard to say what makes a Nichols movie a Nichols movie. They seem like vehicles for actors, not the director, whose stamp is in leaving almost no trace of himself.
“If you want to be a legend, God help you, it’s so easy,” Mr. Nichols said the other day over coffee in his Times Square office. “You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it’s fun to do a
Below are 5 different traveling lessons I have picked up in the past few months that will hopefully help you get the most out of your journeys. They’re not sexy, but they work.
1) Wash Your Clothes Whenever You Get a Chance -
2) Develop a Hotel Room Exercise Routine -
3) Carry Lots of Cash -
4) "Thank You" is Universal, Tipping is Not -
5) Try to Speak the Language
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