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...another. At one time he had five. He needed the flats above and below to shield himself from noise (once he tried swapping urban sonic torture for the sounds of nature and wound up shooting songbirds). Bright light he considered poison, so he restricted himself to a heavily draped bedroom. To this room he beckoned "talkers," people he advertised for in the newspapers, saying he would pay them to tell him of their lives. And he wrote. A failed poet, for good reason, he aimed at capturing his life, the lives of others and his part of the 20th century...
...special pleading. He could belong with the invalid writers, like Marcel Proust and Flannery O'Connor, whose illnesses gave them a vital solitude. But unlike them, Welch had little interest in society. As his biographer, Michael De-la-Noy, notes, "Politics, literature, indeed the entire world outside his bedroom window, scarcely existed...
...Sunday afternoon in July, 13-year-old Elizabeth Tomas was sitting at her bedroom window in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. She was putting on her makeup when a bullet came through the window and hit her just above the left eye. Tomas, who had just started high school, was the innocent victim of a random gang shooting. After visiting her in the hospital, L.A.'s new mayor, James Hahn, put up a $25,000 reward for information on the crime. "If a young girl can't stay in her bedroom safely," he says, "we are in terrible...
...spike in murders in Los Angeles shows, the gang nightmare is back. Gangs, it turns out, can take more beatings and lock-down time than any humane society is prepared to deal out. And it is the 13-year-old girl putting on makeup by her bedroom window who has to pay the price...
...more of a retreat," says Barbara Sallick, co-founder and senior vice president of design at Waterworks. "As that phenomenon evolves, people want better quality, more beauty and more comfort in their bathroom." So instead of the standard toilet and sink, newly styled bathrooms are elaborate extensions of the bedroom, furnished with pieces like Williams-Sonoma Home's Victoria Collection dresser, left, which can be used as a sink. Or Kohler's Purist Hatbox toilet, which looks like an ottoman. "The bathroom has become an area in the home that can reflect personal style," says Michael McGeever, vice president...