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...appearances the Ayalas are not an exploitative family. To them the ethical questions that swirl around them are airy abstractions, not the terrifying reality they daily confront. A frightened Anissa has lately taken to dragging her mattress into her parents' bedroom each night. For her, there is no debate about how her family views soon-to-arrive Marissa. "She's my baby sister," Anissa declares. "And we're going to love her for who she is, not for what she can give me." Who is to say which sister is the luckier...
...time in my life, that I would not be able to fall asleep. I spent my many waking night-time hours yelling frantically at myself: "Sleep! Sleep! Relax! RELAX!" When self-punishment failed to calm me down, I turned on the tape recorder. I paced, manically. I pounded my mattress. I stared into the light bulbs until my eyes watered. I cried, almost...
...their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling hog-tied by their demanding household companion, Mary says of the experience, "I've loved every minute...
...maintain social peace by subsidizing prices for essential goods and services. The government prints more money to cover the gap, which in a free-market economy would increase inflation. But under the severe price controls of a command economy, the money has no place to go but under the mattress. Jan Vanous, research director of PlanEcon, a Washington-based consulting firm, estimates that by the end of 1989 the store of unspent, readily available money will exceed 460 billion rubles, at least a third of which would be spent immediately if goods were on hand...
Aside from this "box spirit" innovation, the play remains essentially intact. The focus remains throughout on our crazed heroine, whose reputation precedes her. For, more than two millenia before Glenn Close wielded her first Ginsu or Farrah Fawcett burned her first Sealy mattress, there was Medea and her ignominious crimes of passion...