Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though her only office was a spare bedroom and her only warehouse the closet, Kolbe wrote a catalogue and sent it to 3,500 teachers and parents. Orders began to trickle in, then to flow. The first years were hard. She bought a warehouse, and it caught fire. An employee embezzled money. She divorced her husband. "I never, never feel overwhelmed," Kolbe says, a little grimly. "I enjoy a challenge...
...venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield, the senior editor who supervised the cover package, also hope for a VCR. He already has one, but it is hooked to a master-bedroom TV and not to the one the children watch. "Parents have some privileges," he says, "but as a result, my wife and I are under more or less constant siege. And this state of affairs promises to continue, as I know for a fact that Santa is not going to come...
...sleep and is still bright-eyed. When I Fall in Love is both heartsore and heartfelt, Falling in Love Again a music-box minuet that turns into a full-swing romp, and the classic Billy Strayhorn title cut a cocktail lounge elegy of elegant despair. Barroom or bedroom, Lush Life is right at home...
Last night Walt Whitman had the strangest dream. There he was, staring out his bedroom window, when who should hop in but Huck Finn, itching to travel. "Dress warmly," Walt's dead mom told him. And we're off to see Louisa May Alcott, who's having an affair with a Tahitian prince. Over there's Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, playing Hamlet to Emily Dickinson's Ophelia; they become co-stars and lovers. Old Ralph Waldo Emerson is having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy...
Between midnight and 1 a.m. a student in Claverly Hall walked from the bathroom to a bedroom in her unlocked stifle and found a Black male taking her watch and about $15 in cash. She described the suspect as about 20 years old, with a medium build and wearing a black leather jacket, police said. The victim screamed, and the suspect fled, dropping the watch. A police search of the area turned up nothing...