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...construction is part of a project to make the Cambridge sewer system cleaner and cheaper, Culver said. The project will involve several streets including DeWolfe, Mount Auburn, Holyoke, Bow, Quincy, Broadway, Kirkland and Oxford...
Recall that not long ago, in our mothers' day, the standards were cruel but clear: every room should look like a motel room, only cleaner under the bed. The floors must be immaculate enough to double as plates, in case the guests prefer to eat doggie-style. The kitchen counters should be clean enough for emergency surgery, should the need at some time arise, and the walls should ideally be sterile. The alternative, we all learned in Home Economics, is the deadly scorn of the neighbors and probably plague...
...camera style. ! Here, you feel, is a moviemaker, a popular artist with an infectious joy in his craft. What Raimi calls Woo's "supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience -- an unflinching Asian view of the politics of testosterone...
Still, faced with public concern about the effect TV violence might be having on young viewers, the networks have vowed to scrub their houses even cleaner. The label itself may turn out to be sparingly used. Network officials say few, if any, of their regular series will be so branded; only Steven Bochco's racy new cop show for ABC, NYPD Blue, has been singled out as likely to get a weekly warning. In general, the label will be applied on a case-by- case basis to certain TV movies and individual episodes of regular series...
...this leads to a second suggestion: make domestic service more like < capitalism and less like feudalism. The relationship between customer and supplier is inherently more equal than that between employer and servant. There is no squeamishness involved in taking your clothes to the dry cleaner. If domestic service were generally provided by business firms (ideally, co-ops of the workers themselves) with all the trappings of a business relationship (monthly bills instead of cash on the kitchen table, etc.), the arrangement would be more dignified for both parties. It would also provide household workers some of the benefits -- such...