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...cork on another confetti-filled evening." About her schoolboy son who flunked lunch. About her washing machine, which eats one sock in every pair; her kids ask where the lost ones go, and she tells them that they go to live with Jesus. About how, when one kid ate an unknown quantity of fruit on a supermarket expedition, she offered to weigh him and pay for everything over 53 Ibs. About why it is all right to store useless leftovers in the refrigerator: "Garbage, if it's made right, takes a full week." About how young mothers want desperately...
...elite, colleges. Most of us never knew economic difficulty. I remember wandering around Cambridge for days without spending a dollar, except on books and movies. I had no money, but I also needed none tuition, room, and board were paid. I never bought clothes, never had cleaning bills, never ate out except at a sandwich shop called Elsie's, and traveled exclusively by thumb and backpack...
...hangouts of the student population ranged from the all-night eateries like the Waldotf Cafeteria on Massachusetts Avenue to Gusties in Brattle Square, where one could get a square meal for thirty-five cents and be waited on by a busty proprietress who was apt to dictate what one ate Up the street, at the Brattle Inn, presided over by two maiden sisters, bright law students such as Jim Rowe and Ed Rhetts (who went on to distinguished careers in the Roosevelt administration) and David Riesman, winding up their third year at the Harvard Law School under the tutelage...
...been consultant to the Merriam Webster dictionaries for drama terms. In mid-summer his copy of the great Second Edition arrived and he had the massive twenty-pound volume placed on a side-board in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. Baker, three very bright teenage grandchildren and I ate our meals together Scarcely a meal passed but some unusual word would come up for discussion. Then I would go to the dictionary, read the relevant definition, and the etymology, and we would bandy the word about. That's how I learned the riches that he hidden in most dictionaries...
...blends the two moods to create this season's funkiest fable. Originally, Dante's gremlins were neither intelligent nor impishly charming. "They liked to eat," he says. "That's all they did. They would eat people's legs off, chew people's fingers. They ate Billy's dog. They killed Billy's mom, and her head flew down the Starrs. It was kind of grim." In its final form Gremlins is "soft" enough to have won a PG rating. Says Spielberg, who has managed to make three horror or science-fiction movies (Close...