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George sat on the third-base side with his head tilted back, his face radiant under a shower of exploding light. The crowd ooohhhed chrysanthemums and aaahhhed weeping willows and the sound of exploding air. "Everybody loves fireworks," he said. "Democrats, Republicans, young, old, rich poor. It doesn't matter. Everybody loves them...
...prevents uninvited visitors. But for every Jehovah's Witness it frustrates, it also seems to keep out unexpected but eminently welcome visitors. With a sadistic pleasure, we detain tenants' friends and relatives, keeping them in the lobby until their host returns home, wakes up or gets out of the shower to vouch for their good character. I hope those who are kept waiting find some solace in our obeisance to the rules and rituals...
...home page, get one quick. Scout the "job fairs" popping up around the country, created for desperate people like you, or organize a fair of your own. And tell your campus recruiters to make their offers to top engineers, computer programmers and chemists more like the deals sports teams shower on athletes--including signing bonuses. Says Jim Bretl, director of the career-services center at Marquette University in Milwaukee: "It's much like...
...past year Heche and DeGeneres have lived together in Los Angeles' old-moneyed Hancock Park, in a remodeled Spanish manse featuring a harem-inspired video room and a mammoth shower with their initials--A and E--intertwined in tile. While the town's tongues wagged last year, they decorated. "We looked at fabrics instead of tabloids," jokes Heche. "It's been an odd year. It has played itself out in every way--negative, positive, people supportive, people bitter--but we never wavered in our love...
...took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid," he said, "and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. And my dad spread out a blanket. We lay down and looked at the sky, and I saw for the first time all these...