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...asked people not to watch television for the week. "That's not nice," she said. When I pressed her for info, she said, "I play canasta. What else? Nothing much. At my age, you want me to find something exciting?" No, but I wasn't letting her go. Finally, eager to get me off the phone, she confessed that she's going to stop dyeing her hair. "Your father is going gray, and his mother should be a blonde?" she said. This was the stuff. It was like Fort Lauderdale sweeps week...
...Facilities Maintenance Operations at the MAC. “If you watch them for a bit, every couple seconds the owls’ heads turn. Oh, see! There it goes!,” he points. Casey, who is very knowledgeable about the acidity of starling poop, is ever-eager to show off the owl technology to an interested onlooker...
...people who are otherwise her biggest fans—her parents. Not surprisingly, Krinsky says both her parents were initially reluctant to embrace the idea of their daughter acting as the sexual Anne Sullivan to her fellow students’ Helen Keller—challenged, awkward, but eager to learn nevertheless. In her parents’ defense, Ma and Pa Krinsky first learned of the column over Thanksgiving, a time normally reserved for expressing appreciation for such gifts as having enough food to eat and not suffering from any terminal illnesses, not for your daughter’s wealth...
...families in America's gossip columns, such as the Reagans, Jacksons and Judds. But as baby boomers get older, they start to seek reconciliation with their aging parents. And warring siblings who fear they'll be left with no close family relationships after the death of their parents are eager to reconcile with brothers and sisters. These two books suggest that simple communication skills can help mend the deepest estrangement...
...Procuring such objects only got easier for Baker as the years went by. Zen was now a business, and a booming one. The center's droves of eager young disciples turned out to be the next best thing to slave labor as they were willing to work tirelessly for almost no money as part of their spiritual training. Female acolytes ready to have sex with Zen Center's new master were another perquisite of Baker's office. Driving a white BMW and consorting with the likes of Jerry Brown and Linda Rondstadt, Baker grew increasingly out of touch with...