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...calls his son “home slice,” laments their lack of “‘7th Heaven’ moments,” and sagely explains to his children, “Life is hard. Not ‘the TiVo in my bedroom isn’t working’ hard. ‘Making a living for the ones you love’ hard.” Delivering such lines as these, Bob becomes an endearing mixture of a dorky dad and a sarcastic cultural critic. Cultural awareness is not particular...

Author: By Rachel E. Whitaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R.V. | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

...June 12, 1982: At four that morning, while a boarder in the Santa Monica home of Leonie Haddad, she entered the bedroom of her sleeping landlady, straddled her and shook her awake, brandishing a foot-long serrated bread knife and whispering, "God has inspired me to kill you!" She attacked Haddad, "slicing her from the corner of her mouth to her ear ... Bettie stabbed Haddad four times in the chest, narrowly missing her heart... stabbed the hand eight times, severing the top of Haddad's third finger." Summoned by Haddad, police "found Bettie in the shower with her clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garbo of Bondage | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

Setting house rules early on can stave off sexual tension and feelings of being used. Ken Mackay, 29, a New Yorker who has had a dozen people (mostly women) live in his two-bedroom Harlem apartment in exchange for help with his dog-training business, used to ask his roommates to "find some time" to help out, but he now requires them to dedicate three hours each weekday to those chores. Similarly, Gerry Freitas, an athletic recruiter based in San Jose, Calif., enjoyed a collegial relationship with his housemate but asked her to leave after she started slacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: New Roommaid | 4/24/2006 | See Source »

...Lyric Theatre for two weeks before going on tour in Scotland next month and England this fall. Gaiman explains to his young fans that the book was inspired by a nightmarish fantasy his daughter Maddy once had. The children are rigorous cross-examiners. "But from where exactly in her bedroom did the wolves appear?" a skeptical 8-year-old girl wants to know. Gaiman answers with not a moment's hesitation: "A foot above her head and a little to the left." As the famed creator of entire comic-book universes, Gaiman knows the importance of detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leader of the Pack | 4/23/2006 | See Source »

...year old lapsed piano student girl’s version of the Black Sabbath or Birthday Party or Bauhaus or the Pil Flowers of Romance records she’s never actually heard, just overheard her older sister and her friends Talking About [sic] behind the slammed-shut bedroom door. The girl goes down and bangs on the piano in anger and boredom, singing of lost loves she never knew and world-weariness she never felt, etc. That is the scene or theater of this record.” If you’re like me, which...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Fiery Furnaces | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

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