Word: household
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With $158.30 worth of household cleaners in my shopping bags, I was eager to begin. But after I unloaded the products--most of them familiar, Donna Reed--ish brands of my youth--I first sat down to study their labels. Along with my new dust-bunny awareness, I've become hyperconscious of anything else my baby might potentially mouth or chew...
However, critics were quick to write the band off as a flash in the pan, and Cuomo was, by no means, a household name...
...stomach,” he says.Pecci summed up the show’s feel succinctly: “Think the Bard of Avon meets Quentin Tarantino.” RUBBISH AND REVERENCEThis recipe is likely to generate controversy as well as excitement. Any staging of Shakespeare that counts household rubbish as inspiration—“the major thematic gesture is garbage,” Lazarcheck says of this production—is bound to attract some attention, not all of it favorable, from purists. Yet all of the members of the cast and staff contacted by The Crimson...
...Today, when an heiress can become a household name by making a porn video, everyone's famous and nobody's shocked. And when consumers aren't gobbling up the latest embarrassments of modern stars, they search the past for artists who were pariahs then, suitable for veneration now. Thus the hierarchy is upended. Novelists lauded in the '50s are forgotten now (don't expect a Sloan Wilson or James Gould Cozzens revival any time soon), while writers who were published only in cheap paperbacks (Jim Thompson) are heroes. Producer Stanley Kramer was the social conscience of Hollywood; yet his films...
...Hialeah policeman Tom Fitzpatrick was called to the Lear household, where Bettie was tearing the place up. He sat her in the patrol car while he took a statement from Harry. Returning to the car, he "saw Bettie in the back seat, with her dress pulled up, panties around her knees, masturbating with a coat hanger that the officer had left" there. Fitzpatrick's report: "defendant psycho." Assault and battery and disorderly conduct charges were dropped after she recommitted herself to Jackson Memorial, where she spent six months, part of it under a suicide watch...