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...from a family that was big on reading. My dad had so many books in the house that the attic suffered from structural damage and we had to move the books onto the porch, which became our library. But after that even the porch started sagging under the weight of all those books so we had to move them into the basement...
...seen directors and producers want to keep stuff in that's dull and boring and pretentious. Everybody thinks, "Oh, my God, the five-hour cut must be incredible!" But the five-hour cut is usually like The Picture of Dorian Gray: it should be sitting in someone's attic and never seen...
...They believe these kids have the best chance of succeeding and going on to college if they are nurtured before they get to high school. The pair opened SEED in the fall of 1998. Its first home was in a children's museum. Classes were held in the unused attic, and dorms were set up in an unoccupied building next door. A year later the two men found a vacant elementary-school building in the high-poverty area of southeast Washington and raised more than $12 million in donations from across the country and secured an additional $14 million...
...your parents wanted any more trinkets cluttering up their house they wouldn't still be nagging you to get your yearbooks out of the attic. Get them something perishable, like food. To ship treats like Vanderertven jam and Destrooper cookies (from $56) go to www.giftsofcourse.com...
...believes in real ghosts, like the kind that haunted her remodeled San Francisco attic and needed to be exorcised by a professional (as she writes in Room with a View, New Kitchen and Ghosts). That belief, like so much else, was bequeathed by her mother. Daisy consulted a Ouija board on how to raise Amy and her little brother, after her husband and eldest son both died of brain tumors in the same year. It makes sense that ghosts should be endemic to a life as haunted as Tan's. Besides the deaths of her father and brother, she writes...