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...fearful," she said last May in a speech to the Women's Bar Association. "And they are getting into trouble, and they are being hurt." Reno draws freely on the lessons of her own family. "It was my mother, who worked in the home, who taught us to bake cakes, to play baseball, to appreciate Beethoven's symphonies," she says. "She spanked us hard, and she loved us with all her heart. And there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life...
...which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out. She is on a cultural seesaw held to a schizophrenic standard: everything she does that is soft is a calculated coverup of the careerist inside; everything that isn't is a put-down of women who stay home and bake cookies. As she sits in the White House on a spring day, she seems to be bending with the burden, more relaxed and philosophical < about what life is throwing at her than anyone would have predicted from her press clips. She is less the killer lawyer than a version...
...Valentine's Day I offer, with all due respect, a suggestion to some of Harvard's women. Take a break and let your guard down. Find a male friend--it doesn't have to be someone you're interest in, just someone you like--and take a walk, bake a cake, shoot some hoops, or just find a quiet place to sit with...
Whalen says Maimonis's children will benefit from her experience. "My mother was out selling Tupperware, so she didn't have time to bake cookies with it. But now I use it to cook, so it turned out all right in the end anyway," he says...
...sort them clearly; this produces a vague sense that all contexts are alike, a contemplation of though itself rather than of its objects. The poet or his stand-ins, as facts overwhelm him, grows wistful, distant, unable to act. Here is the familiar dilemma of the "lonely crowd": "We bake a dozen kinds of muffins every day/yet we are cold and disquieting at heart." ("American Bar") Ashbery's comparatively wide appeal (given the surface "difficulty" of his style) suggests that we do, in fact, feel isolated and overwhelmed; his lyric detachment touches the nerve that "postmodern" novelists from Pynchon...