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...titular golden Lab who taught him lessons about patience, loyalty, and commitment, the author essentially rewrote Old Yeller. Not so much in its plot or content, but rather in effect-it was a dog book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family; his early years in love; and the agonizing decline of his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marley & Me's Author on Childhood | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Pity poor Kleenex. The flagship tissue of Kimberly-Clark, its brand name has skipped the company town and now lives a cheap and licentious life of common usage. Despite the best protective efforts of its parent, Kleenex sleeps with all comers. It has become a corporate ne’er-do-well: it has become generic...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: A Nominal Problem | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...consciously about this) to appeal to a mid-20th-century middle class smallish-town, traditional-values audience.”Despite her small-town origins, Little Lulu has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, and other languages, Lawrence Buell said.The gutsy little girl has also been featured in Kleenex advertisements, starred in TV shows and animated shorts, and appeared on merchandise such as magic slates.Buell said he doesn’t know why his mother christened her most famous creation “Lulu.”“My mother had an aunt named Lulu (nickname...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Little Lulu Goes to Harvard | 11/6/2006 | See Source »

...bathroom or to wash his calloused hands with bottled water. It’s an intense focus that leads some to erroneously conclude that he is blind. He doesn’t even look up when a toddler puts a dollar bill in the empty Kleenex box he keeps on the ground.Most pedestrians rush by, but a few tourists congregate beside him, listening.“I don’t like the sound of it. It’s very freaky,” says Eduardo B. Alonso, a visitor from Spain. “The sound is very...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Self-Taught Fiddler Sharpens Up Square | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...Clinton impeachment imbroglio, the Democratic consultant-entertainer James Carville wrote an entire book, titled Stickin', celebrating those who stuck with the boss. But loyalty was a one-way street in the House of Clinton, a royal court where the King and Queen blithely discarded unwanted retainers like used Kleenex. Even Carville's merry band of consultants was tossed after the 1994 congressional-election debacle. As a result, several of those discarded, like George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich and Dick Morris, exacted their revenge in brutal memoirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Loyalty Trumps Truth | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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