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...Dummies" as a gag gift, but paging through it, I found myself pulled in not so much by the book's facts as by its opinions. For instance, the author, University of Texas at Tyler political science professor Marcus Stadelmann, calls Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner who flubbed Reconstruction, "a horrible human being." When I was in school, textbooks were not that honest. Of course, when I was in school, textbooks still said the U.S. had never lost a war, and I started kindergarten four months after the fall of Saigon...
...serious humidity problem and a demonic elevator on loan from Poltergeist. They stick around even after a sinister water stain begins expanding on the ceiling and they learn that their building was once inhabited by a young girl who mysteriously disappeared. This lost girl happens to be the owner of the red bag that Yoshimi keeps throwing out?and that reappears each time like a drowned body bobbing back to the surface...
...called Williams syndrome which, among other things, leaves him literally without a sense of direction. Kazuki's older sister, Mohi, is even more rudderless: the extent of her ambition seems to be part-time prostitution. At the head of this clan is Hidetomo, the almost comically loathsome pachinko-chain owner and abusive drunkard who views his children as "nonperforming assets." Hidetomo's malevolence goes unnoticed outside his family, however, as he sits on the board of trustees at Kazuki's "crassly commercial" school and is very chummy with the chief of police...
...BLASS, 79, the urbane couturier who defined American style by marrying comfort with elegance; of throat cancer; in New Preston, Conn. Among his signatures were striped sailor T shirts in fine fabrics and cashmere sweaters atop taffeta skirts as alternatives to evening dresses. The son of a hardware-store owner from Fort Wayne, Ind., Blass watched Carole Lombard movies and sketched New York City cocktail parties as a boy; later, he dressed--and befriended--such clients from the social elite as Nancy Reagan and Pamela Harriman...
Road trips, with plenty of time in the car together, also give baby boomers the chance to strengthen and renew relationships with siblings, spouses, kids and grandchildren. "These vacations are a real family affair," says Michael Veeck of Charleston, S.C., who is a co-owner of six minor league teams and a consultant to the Detroit Tigers. He is anticipating a 50% rise this season over last year in the number of people 50 or older taking road trips to the minor league parks...