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...somewhat precocious child, and I had been reading...I have always had a book in hand and I spent time reading alone with my mother,” he says. “My mother tried to teach me languages and what she knew, but she had no method...
SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF. Women millionaires often have a detailed method for tracking household expenses. Of those who are married, only 1 in 20 have ceded responsibility for budgeting and financial planning to their husbands. Almost half make those decisions jointly...
...networks' trade-off for free access to broadcast spectrums worth billions of dollars. So the new network schedules seek to lure guys within those constraints. There are cop shows and action shows, series set in casinos and boxing rings. Fox is relying on male-oriented sitcoms like Method & Red, with hip-hop stars Method Man and Redman. NBC unveiled Summer Olympics promos that made swimming and gymnastics look like X Games events, and its midseason sitcom The Men's Room examines male issues and anxieties from what its president of entertainment, Kevin Reilly, says will be a sophisticated perspective. "This...
...just-the-facts-ma'am crime reports.) Still, the skinny here is often sensational, and reading the section about how to carry out a hit will almost make you feel the cold, steely tickle of a .22-cal. handgun close by. "For New York wiseguys," writes Brasco, "the preferred method of execution is two behind...
...whispers. In a pop culture consecrated to Don Juan, he seems the grayish professor - a wan don. His plays, for stage and TV, are subtle comedies about daft people (The Madness of George III, The Lady in the Van) or lost ones (An Englishman Abroad, Talking Heads). His method is understatement, indirection, irony. "In England, we never entirely mean what we say, do we?" a Bennett character declares in the 1977 play The Old Country. "Do I mean that? Not entirely." Yet an argument can be made (though never, never by Bennett himself) that he is the foremost English playwright...