Word: householder
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...says after a moment. “I won’t say which head of which studio who’s Jewish said to me, ‘Don’t tell my mother this is a Christian book. This is the most important book in our household.’”Adamson suggests that the press has overplayed the religion angle.“I’m worried about why you’re all so obsessed with it!” he says with a laugh. “I always thought...
...arrived at my office wrapped in a bow and a hand-designed packet of seed from the author's garden attached, though I am sure it does not ship to bookstores this way.) The earliest material, from the mid-'80s, shows Tyler already interested in the dramas of the household. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning," provides a snapshot of a neighborly Midwest Saturday night gathering during the mid-'60s. The men, all in one room, swap curse-filled insults and pornographic playing cards, while the women trade techniques for keeping the men in check ("I just throw a wet towel...
...weepy stories of the famous (Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marilyn Monroe) and sometimes the less famous (Holocaust survivor Hanna Bloch Kohner). More recently, he developed such shows as Name That Tune and The People's Court, the pop-culture phenomenon that in 1981 made California judge Joseph Wapner a household name...
That was then. The Brown household has since doubled in size: mamma bear welcomed into her den three of her older sister Latasha Davis' four rambunctious kids--Rodkeen, 8, Angel, 7, and Dasia, 5. Davis has lately found it difficult to cope with their needs. "She has her days, just like I do," Brown gently explains. "Sometimes people don't feel like getting up in the morning." But Brown seems to handle the pressure. If she has an expertise, it is surviving the surprises of fate...
...repetitive panegyric that lacks the narrative drive necessary to pull readers onto the next page.Nevertheless, as a reference tool, the book is indispensable, and, regardless of style, provides truckloads of trivia, such as the genesis of the word “google.” To arrive at that household name, Brin and Page unintentionally misspelled the math term “googol,” proving that even Stanford educated computer junkies make mistakes (if they were Harvard-educated, things might have been different). Brin and Page did not invent the search engine concept, but they certainly refined...