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It would seem difficult to root for the success of such an unpleasant character, but Casey artfully provides good reasons for doing so. Pierce's "swamp Yankee" pride is based on a fierce, if sometimes obnoxious, integrity. He does not ask for anything except the chance to make a decent...
Henderson is an attractive, birdlike woman, small-boned, with coppery hair tufted up at the sides. She has been helping people look better since that dim era (the 1970s) when only politicians and models had images to worry about. Henderson started out in England, where she "did her postgraduate work...
So do many citizens of Japan, where personal hygiene is paramount and high technology extends into just about every sphere of daily life. This combination has produced the enthronement of the bathroom as a focus for ingenuity and decorating style. "The Japanese have given up hopes of having a garden...
During this summer's severe drought, Los Angeles has adopted a typically high- tech approach to water use. The city council has passed an ordinance requiring that all new buildings be outfitted with ultra-low-flush toilets that use only % 1.5 gal. of water, far less than the old 3.5...
Officially one of the traditional-minded Independents, Vellucci actually belongs to a political party all his own. He is an old-fashioned populist when the issue is trash removal or repairing East Cambridge park benches. But Vellucci has also provided the swing vote for newfangled Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) projects...