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...neurosis, everyone is entitled to his own apocalypse. Burnout becomes the mechanism by which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like the marshmallows that Cub Scouts thrust into the campfire flame. They hold them there until they are charred, peel away the blackened outer skin and eat it, then thrust the soft white marshmallow into the flame again, repeating the process until there is nothing left.- By Lance Morrow
...detail, he gives his own story the Bishop treatment. "I reached into my sagging trouser pockets and pulled out a kitchen match," he writes of his first encounter, at age 14, with an unclad female in a dark room. "I struck it on my shoe and, when the flame flared, I held it high up between Tessie's thighs to ascertain the what and the where. For no reason whatever, the girl popped straight up in the air screaming." He barely graduated from the eighth grade and was fired from every job his father got him until...
...York City brownstone and a summer home at Oyster Bay, or sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...
...large cast of guests, servants and outsiders so that everyone seems singular, from the lord of the manor to the local poacher. When these sharply etched characters gather in the field for a hunt, they seem to inhabit a fine old photograph, illuminated from behind by an approaching flame...
...Consumer Product Safety Commission. The eight-year-old body, smallest of the Government's health and safety agencies, with a staff of 900, keeps watch over some 15,000 consumer products. In the past four years, CPSC has banned the use of Tris, a cancer-causing flame retardant used in children's clothing, got companies to recall asbestos-insulated hair dryers and stopped the use of benzene in paint removers. The commission must be renewed by act of Congress before October, and the Administration is lobbying to either have it killed outright or buried in the generally...