Word: householders
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...Growing up in an academic household offered Matt the opportunity to learn both in school and out. "As a parent you try to provide the right environment of learning and communication in the home," his mother says, "but a strong school is important. Parents can't do everything...
Escape the hustle and bustle of Harvard dining halls; have a bowl of cold gazpacho at Iruna. On a sunny day, it is pleasant to share some tapas on the porch; The interior's as welcoming as a household kitchen, but on a sunny day, take your tapas to the patio. Iruna, 56 JFK St. 868-5633. Monday-Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday...
...Household products are less of a concern. Consumers can look for wraps made of polyethylene instead of PVC. To play it even safer, food should never be microwaved in any plastic wrap since this speeds adipate migration. Plastic bowls marked microwavable are probably safer than those that aren't; glass or china bowls are even better. Beyond that, there's little any consumer can do. "Industry develops these products for their physical characteristics," says Peter Orris, a professor of internal medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, "but it doesn't always test them for human toxicity...
Morell's investigation of objects led him beyond his home and into museums and libraries. While his earlier photographs framed and isolated the driftings of his household, in this series he manipulated the objects to be photographed much more actively. In one of my favorites, "Dictionary" (1994), the lens peers up at the corner of the dictionary, and, isolated from details that might confess the scale, the book looms like Giza. Commenting on the print, Morell said, "I wanted to take a photograph where a dictionary looks like a pyramid, so I sat down and figured...
...lush andexotic life of a geisha in the Japan of the 30sand 40s, has been wildly successful. InMemoirs, Sayuri, an aging geisha recountsher youth spent in the Okiya, a cloisteredbrothel where women trained for the rigors of theGeisha art. Hatsumomo is the primadonna geisha ofthe Okiya, supporting a household of youngapprentices and aged ex-geishas. From the momentSayuri is sold into the Okiya Hatsumomorecognizes her as a challenge to her supremacy andspends the rest of the novel plotting Sayuri'sdemise...