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...world in which profanity has become such a ubiquitous cultural prop--where children are routinely exposed to casual swearing in PG movies, in online chat rooms and on prime-time TV--perhaps I should not have been so surprised. Last year an ABC News survey found that 42% of Americans had cursed in public in recent months. And while Clementine does not watch The Sopranos (regularly), she lives with two elder sisters who can recite the racier lines from the latest Austin Powers film...
...nipple and penis jokes, the wild cackling or the dopey foreign accents that keep the laughs coming? In Robin Williams' weekly audio show on audible.com it's all that and more. With his acrobatic voice as his only prop, the comic becomes instantly more likable...
...Sean Palfrey, first-year master of Adams. The family room, for the extended Adams House family, holds a welcoming wooden table for weekly dinner talks with members of the senior common room. In addition to ping-pong and pool tables and a TV room, the basement contains a theater prop shop stocked with tools and open to students. Palfrey's favorite parts of the house are the intricate closets, packed with shelves and delicate woodwork, and the gorgeous and gigantic kitchen. But the house's best-kept secret is in the third-floor bedroom--Teddy Roosevelt's crib...
...that home-equity loans--now shooting beyond $500 billion--account for an unknown level of further market speculation. When home values and stocks rise together, "the gains from each help finance the other," he noted last November. If it turns out that rising home values are being mortgaged to prop up stocks, a crack in the stock market could hit home values hard...
During my sinking search for anyone acutely tuned in to the presidential primary, I put out an SOS to the district's Congressman, Ed Royce. "Ed, I'm on the streets of Fullerton and can't find anything but YES ON PROP. 22 signs." The only passion in California politics right now is wrapped up in a proposition that wants to make sure gays don't walk the aisle. "Go to the Brea Community Center," advised Royce, a Bush supporter. Republican women were gathering for their monthly meeting, he said, and they would definitely be plugged...