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...snobbery toward housewifery is also coming back to haunt me in my personal relationships. When I was younger and my father got home late from work, the tension would mount during his impending arrival until he walked sheepishly through the door to meet his fate--my mother's wrath at his disruption of the household routine. I generally took my father's side on these matters. After all, he was just doing the job (since in my mind, having a job meant going to an office) and she should just feel thankful that he worked so hard...
...calculated that midnight is the earliest possible moment he can get away, I find myself growling and grunting laments to the effect of "the least he can do is come home and spend time in this lovely clean apartment" as midnight comes and goes. My past coming back to haunt me, my other roommate remarked last night that she feels like the little kid hoping her parents won't fight when daddy gets home from work...
...free at Seoul, perhaps her best race ever, and one that would haunt her, Evans hollowed out East Germany's big, powerful Heike Friedrich with an astonishing 4:03.85, an entirely unexpected clocking that knocked 1.6 sec. off her own world record. Her time in the 800-free victory that followed was a mere Olympic record of 8:20.20--3 sec. short of the world record that she had set some months earlier. It was worth little more than a nod. Janet had taken care of business, but gee, better luck next time. And indeed in 1989, in Tokyo...
...Patsy Byers, has named Stone and Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...
...unsavory in death as he was in life, mass murderer Richard Speck has come back to haunt the Illinois department of corrections. Last week state legislators packed a hearing room to view a two-hour tape of Speck cavorting with his prison lover. Purportedly filmed in 1988, three years before Speck's death, the tape shows the two inmates snorting cocaine, rolling marijuana joints, brandishing a roll of $100 bills and engaging in oral sex. "If they only knew how much fun I was having," Speck deadpans to the camera, "they would turn me loose...