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Leyner's book subjects nearly every element of pop culture to light-hearted scrutiny, yet includes moments of insight into our human condition "Thoughts While Listening to Mahler in the Afternoon" and "Bassinet Mattress Day" discuss with comical yet realistic clarity issues such as death and, less serious but hopefully more immediate, what to do with that spare time in the car while waiting for your companion to finish her shopping...
...construction worker and confessed fanatic, Vinny was presented his first football in a bassinet. It was the day he came home from the hospital. "When I think of it now I have to laugh," his father says, "but I also have to believe in God." To free himself for football trips, Al Testaverde has given up his 17-year foreman's job to go back to the cruel toil of grading and finishing cement. "It's worth it," he says. "I want Vinny to * win the Heisman more than he wants to win it; I admit that. If he wins...
Officials of the South Carolina children's bureau, which handles official adoptions, charge that the insatiable demand for newborn babies and the state's laissez-faire attitude have spawned a new breed of ambulance chaser. These are the "bassinet hounds" who, in some cases, pursue unwed mothers all the way into the delivery room. Complains Francis Lewis, executive director of the children's bureau: "It used to be that we said, 'Here is a child who needs a home.' Now it is 'Here's a childless couple, let's go find...
...quite different kind of experiment is taking place. Into a small room of the Baudelocque Maternity Hospital marches a nurse bearing a tiny, wrinkled infant named Gery. He is four days old and weighs 6 lbs. 6 oz. The nurse carefully deposits Gery in a waist-high steel bassinet that stands next to a computer. The computer is attached to an empty nipple. The question to be tested: Exactly what sounds can young Gery recognize...
...that point--talk about value judgments--I took the monstrosity and put it in a bassinet, put it in the corner, and put a sheet over it...By the time we looked the next time it was no longer breathing. There was no attempt to help it breathe or anything...