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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friedman, who sat impassively as the verdicts were read, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud...
...just read this morning in the paper about a needy family in New York that is being put up in a hotel and the cost to welfare just for the rent of the hotel room is $37,000 a year. And I wonder why somebody doesn't build them a house...
...wanted him to read them and at the same time I didn't--an uneasy mix of pride and shyness that has never changed in me very much when someone asks to look. The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation...for me it always wants to be sex and always falls short--it's always that adolescent handjob in the bathroom with the door locked...Nowadays writing is my work and the pleasure has diminished a little, and more and more often that guilty masturbatory pleasure has become associated in my head with the coldly clinical...
Even worse, t-shirts and bumper stickers soon read "Springsteen: the Rambo of Rock." People compared Springsteen to Stallone, the Boss to Shambo. A look at the two superstars' beliefs about war--and specifically about Vietnam--reveals some of the stupidity of this assertion...
When home economists ran the kitchen, recipes read like laboratory reports, and human voices could rarely be discerned above the instructions for tsp. and tbsp. But that was a generation ago. Today cooking has become a prime medium for self-expression, television has made superstars of once anonymous chefs, and the voices of food writers resound through their works...