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...absence of a Kinsey-style report on American reading habits, one can only guess what's going on in the dormitories, airport lounges and on the porch swings of the land. And yet there are signs of a kind of reading renaissance--from the rise of espresso-serving superstores to the emergence, on national TV and in countless living rooms, of book clubs and reading groups. At the least, it appears, reading books (or listening to them in the Jeep) is to the 1990s what gymgoing was to the '80s: something we plan to do, something we want...
...gray poodle-skirt, a bright red cardigan sweater and ponytail tied with a matching red ribbon. The duke, when he comes a-courting, looks sublimely ridiculous in a red monogrammed vest. Even the courtship scene between the duke and Gilda is straight out of the '50s, reminiscent of that porch swing on a summer night--a worthy tradition in its way, but ill-suited to the Late Romantic love that's actually supposed to be going on here...
Three University of Pennsylvania students were charged with arson after allegedly setting fire to the porch of a rival fraternity Tuesday night...
...most everything else they sell. I've bought cassette tapes, flannel pajamas, four-pound bags of Tootsie rolls for my high school It's Academic quiz show team, and a Dustbuster. My parents bought a porch umbrella once. We regularly get crates of soda and enormous bottles of detergent...
...shotgun for protection. On Sunday night, Jackie parked his car outside a pool hall just up a small incline from the trailer and put a quarter on the table to reserve a game. He then went down to see his ex-wife. Kay says she shot Jackie on the porch after he "busted in the door." His body was found several yards from there, at the edge of a small garden. Though there was no question who killed Jackie, Kay was not actually indicted until two years later. "It looked like a righteous shoot," explains assistant prosecutor Riffe...