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Before he became the Jimmy Stewart--like gentleman of sitcom, Newhart was a stand-up sensation. His 1960 LP, The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart, went to No. 1 and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. The old bits, in which he would play one side of...
The latest example of this is the enormity of coverage on parents who are crazily obsessed with giving their children a head start. By middle school the kids are world-weary and anxiety-ridden. These domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra...
It is at this point that fiction and fact violently intersect. For the James Ellroy novel on which Brian De Palma's movie is based, weaves many of the known facts of the infamous (and unsolved) murder of 1947 into its fictional narrative. The crime was about as grisly as...
The first month at Harvard is a heady intoxication of freedom. That feeling isn’t simply the delicious sensation of waking up to an entire day under your own jurisdiction. Eventually you come to realize that your classmates are no longer your companions from the diaper crowd. Your...
With the talent he has and the baggage he brings and the sensation he creates, Bill Clinton is the best possible political spouse and the worst. "I don't know what he does. Does he campaign for her? Doesn't he campaign for her?" asks an adviser to Hillary. "I...