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...here, she sounds rather confident that her daughter is doing well on her own. Little does she know the money and time I've spent on necessities The List didn't list: fishnet stockings for the Rocky Horror Picture Show, five sets of cards for one round of Egyptian Rat Screw (the game can get vicious), birthday candles and Entenmann's chocolate cake from Store 24 for surprise birthday parties and a $9 can of compressed air to get the microwave popcorn kernals out of my keyboard...
...next 40 years the small screen would be a comfortable home for women stars, from Lucy to Roseanne. Those actresses who stayed in films found themselves playing caricatures. Davis devolved into a harpy, sharing the horrific What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Joan Crawford and a rat. Younger actresses took the bimbo route. Both groups were deprived of the intelligence of the '30s, the malefic grandeur of the '40s. Movies were now a man's world. If women wanted to survive as more than sluts or nutty aunts, they had to be as burly and aggressive...
...disease is known to doctors as "irrational rationality" because it forces its victims to defy reason while seeming to embrace it. Characters as disparate as Howard Hughes, Lady Macbeth and Freud's sexually conflicted "Rat Man" are among its victims. Today, in every elementary school of 200 pupils or so, three or four youngsters are likely to suffer from it. Howard Hughes' symptoms included an insistence on having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back...
RELIGION 1489--Shopping period can be a rat race. Running from one class to the next, squeezing into over-crowded classrooms and searching desperately for the last syllabus...
...clan, Francisco, stays behind in the Philippines with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricey shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky...