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...retail is a brainy roller coaster of a store with a precipitous dip, moving carriages of clothes and magic mirrors that let you see front and back at the same time. The dressing rooms alone, with glass doors that frost over at the touch of a button and a closet that transmits information about your chosen garment onto a screen, will make this a must-stop shop...
...saga is harder to find than Dick Cheney's secret secure location. But intrepid viewers are rewarded with a great cast (including Dana Delany, Martin Donovan and Philip Baker Hall) in a darkly funny story of a powerful media clan with a skeleton--perhaps literally--in its walk-in closet. Not everything in Pasadena, we learned, smells like roses...
...that we're in a recession, a lot of junk looks more valuable: those "classic" sport jackets in your closet, the aging but paid-for SUV in your driveway--and, get this, the bonds of companies with poor credit. That may sound crazy at first. Recessions are always tough on companies operating at the edge of solvency--those most likely to have high-risk, high-yield junk bonds outstanding. Yet diversified pools of these bonds typically do well at this point in an economic cycle...
...when a white poodle one floor down won't stop yapping. He swipes the pooch, climbs to the roof, wraps his hands round the bitch's neck then dangles it over the side. It's Man and Beast pushed to the edge. Lee relents and locks it in a closet. The building's janitor, however, has a predilection for poodle and returns it to the action?in a pot of stew. This dog is the first of many to perish...
...because I fought like crazy for the best and most conservative treatment, and haven't had a recurrence for 15 years. But it was another realization that this was my life, and it led me to make other changes. For decades, I'd been treating my apartment like a closet plus an office. It was stacked with cardboard boxes full of papers. Now I thought, "My life is not temporary; this is my home." I fixed it up. I bought lamps. I bought antique embroidered sheets...