Word: buster
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...women who still expend the psychic energy that keeps a household going (Is Dave & Buster's right for Ethan's birthday? Christmas here or at my sister's?). As for chores, let's define the term. A chore is the thing that has to be done right now or all hell breaks loose. A chore is putting in an extra load of laundry or cleaning up after the kids before you get rec-room Pompeii. It's not installing an antique doorknob, planting tomatoes or grilling salmon for company, which are fun. Hobbies--surfing the Web, working out, tinkering with...
Back in Minnesota, Buster Johnson reruns his grandson's childhood in his head--rewinding again and again in search of an answer. "I've been trying to think and think, and I can't come up with anything that makes sense," he says. During Mitchell's visits, he often hung out with Buster at his Spring Valley-area meat-processing plant, displaying no untoward fascination with the instruments at hand. "I felt comfortable with him there," says Buster. "He would trim hamburger, but he was never reckless with knives." He does not believe that his son Scott's long-distance...
...That doesn't jibe with anything Buster Johnson can remember. Mitchell's paternal grandfather does not see the divorce as a problem. The last time he saw Mitchell, Buster says, "there was nothing unusual going on." Not on the surface, perhaps. If there is a motive in this case, it may lie in a world that only children are privy...
...with randomization is the "blandification" of the houses. Pforzheimer House, for example, where many black, Latino and Asian-American students chose to live in before randomization, could now just as well be the pre-randomization Leverett House, which had very little character due to its reputation as a "Quad buster...
Richard Jemmons, the self-proclaimed redneck spin surgeon (played by Sling Blade's Billy Bob Thornton), is transparently James Carville. Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod...