Word: householder
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...factor behind Asia's soaring divorce rates [April 5] is that while women have begun pursuing professional careers, they still have to manage the family and household when they get home. They have too much to do. They can't ask their husbands for help at home because the women are afraid the men will become overstressed at work. So wives keep their frustration to themselves, and it builds up, day after day. Women can demand things from their employers but not from their spouses. The divorce rate may fall when women attain in the home the kind of power...
...Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat frame restores faith in traditional hand-drawn animation...
...ongoing love affair between Americans and their television sets," says Ross Rubin, director of industry analysis for NPD Techworld. The romance had been getting a little stale. Even as the number of channels has multiplied, the market for TV sets has been stagnant, at about 2.4 TVs per household, for years. Now those pricey, sexy flat-screens are steadily replacing bulky conventional televisions. Unemployment be damned, Americans are trading...
...suspect that this is largely due to the marginalization of the screenwriter in Hollywood. Once in a blue moon, a writer will become something of a household name, but this usually requires them to either simultaneously dabble in direction or actually write themselves into their screenplays. Granted, writers are not particularly a most glamorous, lovable bunch, but Ang Lee, Ridley Scott and Steven Spielberg did not achieve superstar status with their chiseled jawbones...
Koniaków, in Poland's remote southwestern Beskidy Mountains, has long been celebrated for its superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniak...