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...this is the story of an institution as revered as breakfast, as certain as the sunrise. Since 1952, when the Today show first burbled at an unsuspecting world, millions of Americans have depended on early-morning television for news, weather, helpful household hints-and perhaps an excuse to avoid talking to spouses or children at that delicate hour...
Model Housewife Pat Kramer has this itty-bitty problem. She is shrinking. Perhaps because of prolonged exposure to hundreds of household chemicals, Pat is growing smaller day by day-even as she continues to shop for the family groceries, scour bathtub rings and battle waxy buildup. "She's the kind of person who is going to make the best of it," explains Comedian Lily Tomlin, who plays Kramer in The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a film due for release in January. The sets, says Tomlin, include "a life-size kitchen, one for when I am 3-ft. tall, a huge...
Children who return home to live with their parents [Oct. 13] are copping out in a way that is seriously detrimental to their personal growth and development. Even when live-at-home young adults are contributing money and labor to the household, the fact is that parents provide a psychological safety net whose presence can only serve to inhibit and dilute risk taking and mistake making, both essential components of learning about life and oneself. Living at home after graduating from college or getting a job is an infantilizing process that ultimately sets back both parent and child...
Here Comes Everybody.Those lawyers, lobbyists, accountants and others who hover around the federal honey pot are remarkably well rewarded for their attentiveness. In 1979 Washington was once again the nation's most affluent marketplace, according to Sales and Marketing Management magazine. The average income of households in metropolitan Washington after taxes was $27,200, which is a tidy 31½% above the national average. The average household income for suburban Montgomery County, Md., was $30,333. In Fairfax County in northern Virginia, it was $33,578. One of the reasons that the rest of the country begrudges these people...
Bartlett's own view was that a familiar quotation should be familiar. "The object of this work," said he, "is to show, to some extent, the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... 'household words.' " The New England household of 1855 was devoutly high-minded. About one-third of Bartlett's quotations came from Shakespeare and the Bible, the rest mostly from worthy English poets. Among the unincluded: Washington, Jefferson, Thoreau...