Word: grandpa
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...black, save a lock of hair as the Victorians did and wove into jewelry? Do you let young children see a corpse--the very word suddenly cold and empty because his flesh and blood no longer matter, his meaning filling the space once his presence is gone? "Is that Grandpa?" our 4-year-old wondered. "No, honey," my husband told her. "He's not here anymore. That's just his body." She worked at this, how the arms that held her and the lap she sat in were no longer him. "You know how when we go to Florida...
That stance earned him death threats in punk rock songs and, if not pariah status in Hollywood, then the image of a cranky grandpa. Which hardly flustered Heston; he'd been playing the righteous loner for too long to lose sleep from exile by the reigning Hollywood Left. ("Political correctness," he said in a 1999 speech at the Harvard Law School, "is tyranny with manners.") When Michael Moore came to the actor's home and confronted him, for the climactic scene of the 2002 pro-gun-control documentary Bowling for Columbine, Heston looked both gracious and stern, perplexed and frail...
Regardless of the outcome of the primary, Hillary’s political career will remain intact. Should she win, I’d gladly vote for her over Grandpa McCain. On the other hand, if she does cede the nomination to Obama, she’ll obviously remain a prominent figure within the Democratic Party, and an icon to many American women...
Outsourcing brings to mind big factories and call centers. But entrepreneurs around the globe now offer services--from tutoring to sculpting a bust of your grandpa--to regular folks for a fraction of the cost in the West. Thought the world was flat before? Well, now you can hire someone in India to carry your child...
Once Lynn Huffman lifted his new modem out of the box, it took less than a minute to get online at the computer he keeps in the den. And it took just a few minutes more for Huffman, a retired great-grandpa who recently discovered e-mail, to decide that his new high-speed Internet service was fast, simple to set up and, best of all, cheap. At $26.95 a month, it beats the $42.95 a month he would have had to pay to get broadband from his cable company...