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While Tip may rule the House, he could find that with Millie ruling the household seven days a week, he might at last lose weight and keep it off. Although he stands 6 ft. 2½ in., he has yo-yoed between 210 and 296 lbs., now carries a bulky...
...something labeled beurre d'arachide crémeux. But when you figure out that it means $3.75 for a jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that he was on the verge of turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into chez Mitchell. Says he: "I may be leaving in time, just before I inadvertently put a bottle of wine on the Mitchell table and have Dennis' father come home for lunch on a bicycle with a stick of bread under...
...motherhood as an issue? In Of Woman Born: Motherhood as an Experience and Institution. Adrienne Rich takes up this regularly recurring theme of feminist literature. Women's biological attributes, she argues, have forced them to bear the responsibility for continuing the species; but the division of labor in the household between the working father and the nurturing mother has set the foundation for an inflexible social institution, including much more than bearing children. Since the first stirrings of the patriarchal system, she says, women have been valued only by the number of children--particularly sons--they have borne, and barren...
...before, perhaps the unavoidable consequence of the effort to display the extent of women's oppression. But despite her extensive footnoting and bibliography, Rich begins to sound more extreme than most, her enthusiasm leading her to make contradictory and unsatisfying statements. At times, she seems to accept the household division of labor as it existed in subsistence-level lifestyles, blaming the Industrial Revolution for taking the meaning out of women's social roles. At others, she blames men in general for holding conflicting views of women. She spends two chapters tracing the development of contemporary obstetrics, for example, claiming that...
Tools occupy a special place in Dine's gallery of symbols, and several prints of paintbrushes, hammers, scissors and other assorted household implements, lovingly described by the artist, are displayed. The son and grandson of hardware store owners, Dine spent long hours "daydreaming amongst objects of affection." His wrenches and tinsnips and an autobiographical series of bathrobes are not the public icons of Pop art but personal, private emblems imbued with witty, sly personalities. "I'm concerned with interiors when I use objects," Dine has said, "I see them as a vocabulary of feelings..." Dine often reworks a plate, taking...