Writing about her famous stepbrother Paul's partnership with John Lennon, Ruth McCartney declared that the two were meant to meet, meant to create and one was designed to play sturm and drang to the other's yin and yang.

Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the human face of an era of financial misdeeds and missteps for running the largest and possibly most devastating Ponzi scheme in financial history, died on Wednesday at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, N.C. He was 82.

The libido, formerly accumulated in the fantasied phallus, leaves this central source and gradually phallicizes the real body; that is, it spreads throughout this body, with the isolated exception of the so-called genital zone.

I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head