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...show's success as a comment on TV, and maybe society. Reality shows like The Bachelor and The Swan - one area of TV targeted to women - are retro, happily-ever-after fantasies, even if women watch them ironically. Desperate Housewives is an unhappily-ever-after story. Single mom Susan (Teri Hatcher) was abandoned for another woman. Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is abandoned at home with her bratty kids by her business-traveling husband. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is abandoned emotionally by her rich spouse. They get mad and get even, through affairs, subterfuge, even poisoning. When her husband asks for a divorce...
When Dartboard’s parents got married, they did the sensible thing. Dartboard’s mom kept her last name, and Dartboard got his dad’s last name. The name “Slack” has served him well on everything from SAT forms to résumés to job applications. Never has he been forced to bubble in only part of his last name for want of spaces...
...hand, we coasted through security checkpoints starting at 63rd St., promising each officer in turn that we were, in fact, meeting Officer Smith at the corner of 45th St. We finally settled in just inside the cordoned-off police section reserved for television cameras providing network coverage. Sure my mom had been worried, but, at that moment, surrounded by 50 of New York’s Finest in uniform and several more in plainclothes, there wasn’t a safer spot in the city...
...Specializing in new and used CDs and vinyls at discount prices, these stores carry everything from early 1930s Jazz to the latest in underground techno. And though Newbury Comics maintains a carefully constructed bohemian vibe, the real deal can only be found in the endangered species of Mom-and-Pop record shops. So throw on your vintage rock concert tee, turn off that free jazz record and prepare yourself for musty rooms stuffed with some of the greatest music ever made...
...your AIM away message the moment one of your best friends signs on. Certainly you’ve delayed replying to that lunch invitation sent by e-mail until lunch has already passed. And certainly you have turned your cell phone off after seeing “Mom and Dad” pop up in the caller ID. (Mom and Dad, if you’re reading this, I’m only kidding...