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...alarm clock on the nightstand blares...
...turns out that you call it "S and M" only if you don't do it or if you experiment only occasionally with those handcuffs you keep hidden at the back of the nightstand. If, on the other hand, you are seriously involved in the sadomasochistic subculture--if, say, you have attended one or more of the nation's 90 annual sadomasochistic events ("Beat Me in St. Louis," for instance) and own not only handcuffs but also a spanking bench, a flogger, some paraffin wax, an unbreakable Pyrex dildo and various other unmentionables--you call it, simply...
...that Americans are dying to find out about the next big thing (witness the special gatefold in this issue). After all, Americans like things, and Americans like big. But why, in this age of too little time and too many distractions, should we care so much about next? My nightstand, desktop, TiVo menu and mental to-do list are still full of last big things I never got around to--The Hulk, Friendster, hot yoga (or, for that matter, cold yoga)--and I'm paid to keep up with this stuff. For the average person with an actual productive...
...Israelis yearning for less complicated times. From midnight to 4 a.m. at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem's Talpiot industrial district, Lahav sings tunes written when Israel was a brand-new state by people who, if they are still alive, are probably in bed with their teeth on the nightstand by the time Lahav takes the stage. At 2 a.m., Lahav wraps up a romantic song about making love in a jeep and leads the whole club in a chorus of another old Israeli favorite that goes: "I'm a soldier. Don't cry for me, Baby." For the past...
Roberta Sweetow, 67, keeps the hulking black rotary phone, the one she has had since 1964, on her nightstand in case her husband Herb, 74, receives an early-morning call to substitute teach in a Skokie, Ill., high school. Sweetow purchased the phone for $9 last year, after finally noticing a charge buried in her bill every three months: $18 to lease a telephone. "I realized I've paid over $1,000 for a phone I hardly use," she says. "Who in the world rents a telephone...