Word: lint
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...appropriate for our city-run museums. One man cannot make these decisions alone, especially if he happens to be a married man with a girlfriend, went to the Sopranos premiere party last Wednesday and often shows up in drag at public events. I, on the other hand, take the lint out of the Laundromat dryer after...
...Lint People, meanwhile, was merely cute, an animated trifle about characters made from those useless bits of fuzz and stuffing that come loose from your clothes in the dryer. If cleaning the lint filter is the highlight of your lazy Saturday, then the film’s final shot will make you break down and weep tender, knowing tears. Otherwise, don’t rush...
Inside the crawl space, Brennan also found dryer lint clinging to the walls. "There's a lot of moisture dumping in here from the dryer too," he says. "And we've got some rodent poop by these holes around this ventilation duct." Mice can pass through a 3/8-in. hole, he says, and "they will come back to the house from two miles away if you don't kill them." Brennan used to be more casual about mice before 1993, when the Hanta virus, traced to mouse urine, killed 19 people in New Mexico. "They started finding it in New York...
...present. But for the rest, and for the increasing number of families that are blending stepchildren together, relationships among brothers and sisters are of paramount concern--as they should be. As one of four children--the one who was once caught fighting with a sister over a ball of lint--I can say with authority that positive sibling relationships can be a source of strength for life, whereas unresolved early conflicts can create wounds that never quite heal...
...pocket bulges on tight-jeaned strangers often run deeper than the stray T token or crumpled CVS receipt. Beneath those Diesels lies a hidden world of obscure interests and untapped dreams. In seven pocket excavations, FM hands stray to grab what lurks within the lint in the peacoat of the passerby...