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...plush Connecticut suburb of New Canaan. The 18-year-old stops only to look briefly in a mirror and smooth down her already well-coiffed, highlighted blond hair. Then she takes me to her room, where a Gateway computer and a Sony Vaio vie with her Laura Ashley bedspread set and wicker furnishings. "The Vaio is such a beautiful thing," she sighs. We go back downstairs and say hello to cockatoo Agidore and Katie?s older sister ? also blond and round faced with intelligent blue eyes, back from Brown University for spring break. "Don?t Katie and I look alike...
...Blue Bedspread (Random House; 209 pages; $21.95) illustrates that observation by dealing artfully with unchallenged male mayhem directed at women. Jha, who escaped a career in mechanical engineering to study journalism at the University of Southern California, frames his story in a series of impressionistic and quietly menacing scenes. The technique works, but some may find the tableaux approach somewhat oblique...
Here's this little place, 90 minutes north of Atlanta, where a woman named Catherine Evans Whitener (1880-1964) made a tufted chenille bedspread, and then another, and another, and then someone made a machine that did it faster, and then in 1996, 1.641 billion sq. yds. of carpet were shipped to every place from Hackensack to Hong Kong...
...mother decorated the room in green--a light green carpet, a dark green bedspread. The walls are the unfinished softwood planks my father cut for me; his brother put the sockets in. They cut a hole in the old wood and built me a skylight. They took down the venetian blinds and put up modern Levelors...
...room at home is pink. Pink bedspread, pink pillows, pink ruffled curtains. Tiny pink flowers all over the wallpaper. When I was in sixth grade and moving into a new house, I thought a pink room might be nice. In seventh grade, I reconsidered. But it was already too late...