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...Harvard professionals who responded to the survey said they had been "successful" at combining career and family. Here, quite explicitly, was the message that companies across America were implicitly handing down last week on Take Our Daughters to Work Day as they invited thousands of young girls to crawl down manholes, up telephone poles, into trading pits and office cubicles. But the survey also delivered more pessimistic news: this uppermost tier of American professional women, those who have secretaries to help organize birthday parties, big salaries to afford customized child care and private offices from which to call the pediatrician...
...Beauty of Wynona has a unifying theme, it's a kind of blind-alley search for love in a world that changes before it can barely be experienced. Still Learning How to Crawl takes this theme of sentimental education and extends it past the age of anxiety into a kind of perpetual present tense, where lessons learned lead only to renewed uncertainty. Death of a Train has a real undertow of prairie melancholy, and The Unbreakable Chain is a little like a Lanois echo of Series of Dreams, a rhythmic rumination on the elisions of fantasy and desire...
Columbia could not crawl back into the game after the first half...
...rough going most of the time for the Crimson, who let the vocal Cornell supporters crawl under its skin...
Hepburn still swims, "to be irritating," all year off Long Island Sound but points to a bum ankle that forces her to crawl over the rocks to get out of the water. "Imagine the obituary, actress drowns in six inches of water." Only for a second do I imagine this and ask, generally, about dying. "No fear. I love to sleep. I picture it as just a good long sleep." She likes being alone. "I have such a great family that I haven't had much need for friends. Guests come for dinner at 6 and have to leave...