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...second mistake was to have Peters, so good at winsome vulnerability, play a character so hard and snarly. From the opening number, in which she rages at being abandoned by a live-in boyfriend, to the contrived quarrel with her new paramour a few moments before the finale, her angst always outshouts her charm. A third goof was to have Short start out really neurotic, as Richard Dreyfuss was in his Oscar-winning film portrayal, but turn into Caspar Milquetoast (or Ed Grimley) within minutes. The domestic frictions that made the film funny simply disappear...
...care arrangement. Nearly 60% of married men with kids have working wives. In the absence of the kind of subsidized day-care systems that exist in many European countries, most American families have become participants in an underground economy. For the wealthy, that may mean employing a live-in nanny, but not withholding taxes or asking to see a green card. For the less well- off, it may come down to paying a teenager to baby-sit in the afternoons or slipping cash to a neighbor who watches the kids. Anyone lucky enough to have found someone caring, trustworthy...
Parents who opt for live-in child care must often search long and hard for the sort of dedicated young woman who favors pushing strollers over pursuing more glamorous careers or beer-swilling boyfriends. Last year William and Denise Fischer figured they had found the right nanny in Olivia Riner, a demure 20- year-old who had worked as a nurse's assistant in her native Switzerland and had come highly recommended by a referral agency. But only a few weeks after joining the Fischers, Riner was charged with an unthinkable crime: setting fire to the Fischers' Thornwood, N.Y., home...
...person had been questioned extensively by Warren Commission investigators, and when I looked him up in the Warren Commission testimony, I found he plays a kind of Rosencrantz-and-Guilden stern-level role in the Warren Report, that of a peripheral figure in a key place: he was a live-in manager and janitor at Jack Ruby's sleazy strip joint, the Carousel Club. There's no doubt that the commission investigators were interested in his story -- the transcript of his testimony runs more than 200 pages -- but mostly because he was a source who might shed some light...
Therapists point out some hazards, however. "Filming can hit on touchy unresolved issues within a relationship," observes Bonnie Eaker-Weil, who practices in New York City and Rutherford, N.J. "People may have incompatible attitudes concerning sex." Sonny, a stockbroker with conservative views, thought Sarah, his live-in girlfriend, was joking about taping and laughingly said O.K. One night he came home from the office and found Sarah in a negligee and the video camera running. He blew up, calling her a whore and a slut...