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...ability to claim residence in the land of "Baywatch" and buxom, blond lifeguards. Store owners and custom officials would take a glance at my Los Angeles address and become chummy and friendly, eager to chat. "Harvard," on the other hand, triggered no special response and "Boston" merely elicited a blank stare...
...children pad down the stairs on Saturday morning, and after a quick breakfast they're beckoned to an adjacent room by a blank TV screen. Taken in hand by the remote control, they are led through a world populated by Power Rangers, Animaniacs, the Cryptkeeper, Cap'n Crunch, Hulk Hogan, the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Ducks, Rugrats, Spider-Man, Superman, Pinky and the Brain, Barbie, Nightmare Ned, The Undertaker...
...premiums for wealthier retirees and require nursing-home residents to make a small co-payment. But the House didn't want to go along. "We did a courageous thing," says Lott. As the negotiations entered their final stage, Lott recalls, the response from House members "went from a courteous blank stare to an outright NO! ... I'm ashamed of the House, and I'm ashamed of the President," says Lott, faulting the President for refusing to take on the senior lobby even at a moment of record approval ratings and with no need to ever face them again...
...page meditation to help women find fulfillment by appreciating what they already have. It has been on the best-seller list for 70 weeks, with 2.2 million copies in print. (A companion journal zoomed onto best-seller lists last month--an astonishing feat for a virtually blank book.) Simple Abundance's entry for this day is "The Home as a Hobby," in which she suggests that cleaning out the basement for an art studio, if seen as a pastime, would be fun instead of drudgery. On July 30, she wants you to get rid of "Habits That Steal Precious Moments...
Journal is a masterpiece of brand extension: a series of blank pages that have intermittent homilies from Winston Churchill to Bob Hope to Laura Ingalls Wilder. On each day, the buyer is to write five things the buyer is grateful for. Oprah talked about the child who was thankful for the sound of his mother laughing, an observation surely to be valued above Power Rangers and Super Soakers. But does this justify $12.95 for a diary? New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath has declined to put the book on the Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous list (where Abundance...