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Most of the estimated 10 million to 12 million Americans who suffer from incontinence still feel that way. "We talk about rape or homosexuality but not about loss of bladder and bowel control," observes Simon's founder Cheryle Gartley. "It's the last of the closet issues." But the door is slowly opening. This month in Boston, researchers gathered to discuss promising medical remedies at a joint meeting of the International Continence Society and the Urodynamics Society. Encouraging, too, are recent developments, from newsletters to helpful products that greatly ease the daily burden of patients. Today's message: incontinence...
Jessie enters her bedroom to put away her own pile of clean laundry, but instead of opening the drawers as one might expect, she goes directly to the closet. There she puts various articles of clothing into bags marked for Goodwill and the Salvation Army. The few knickknacks scattered around the otherwise stripped bare room get slipped into a box under her bed. Toiletries are thrown into a plastic garbage bag and deposited into the trash...
...must confess--I didn't buy it in anticipation of the 350th ball. Unfortunately, the event's planners, whoever they are (I sure didn't get a chance to vote for them), failed to foresee that many Harvard undergrads don't have formal wear just waiting in the closet for a night on the town...
...five-year-old grandson. Her opening lines, directed to the audience, are pleasantly sardonic: "Let me tell you how much I love being called Grandma . . ." But this grandma turns quickly into a cloying paragon of hip, enlightened '80s attitudes. When her mother (Elaine Stritch) sneaks into the closet for a smoke, Ellen admonishes, "You've read the Surgeon % General's report." When the family dog is about to have puppies, Ellen argues that her young grandson ought to be allowed to watch the event. And when one of her students wavers in motivation, she tries to encourage him by citing...
...peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help you" -- but he soon enough acceded to her masochistic desires. Then Frank taught Jeffrey a lesson. He smeared lipstick...