Word: cleaning
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...years that Norman Rockwell practiced his clean-scrubbed style of American optimism, from World War I to Vietnam, barely a single image delved into anything deeper than a smitten heart or a sweet longing for home. Only late in life did Rockwell's work begin to turn from ingrained nostalgia to a grittier reality, most notably in The Problem We All Live With, a 1964 painting of a young black girl on her way to school escorted by federal Marshals. His commonfolk, humorous and brave and spiritual to the core, became icons to generations. Yet a lifetime's work--nearly...
...Voters have made it clear they don't care. In June, 60% of voters said they thought candidates should answer questions about cocaine use, but after last week's ruckus, less than half thought so. And when Bush argues that his answers are part of a principled fight to clean up the process, he is appealing to a palpable national longing...
Things didn't quite work out for Josh Anderson in the Mormon church. Nor did a nondenominational Christian upbringing light the way for Randy Haselton. But neither teen gave up entirely on structure and clean living in Utah. The boys hooked up with Straight Edge, an anti-drug gang of middle-class kids, and discovered new passions. Josh became a vegan and firebombed a McDonald's; Randy enjoys beating the tar out of people...
...exactly a year later, on Labor Day weekend, 1996. During that year, I loathed my dad at times, and I'm sure he felt the same way about me. As some men do, he just withered away after she died. He wouldn't let anyone into the house to clean except me. He ran off anyone who tried to help, then complained about loneliness. He picked up women on the bus, talked about getting remarried (always to someone in her 30s or 40s, I noticed), confided details of his marital life that I really didn't want to know...
Maybe it's just that in Utah, joining a social order devoted to clean living doesn't exactly distinguish you. Firebombing meat and leather outlets, using pipe bombs on a fur-trading office and setting minks free, however--as Straight Edgers and closely linked animal liberationists have been accused of doing over the past several years--tend to drop you from consideration for membership in the church choir...