Word: sitter
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...some strong conceptual questions. Edward Zigler, director of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale University, estimates that 40% of the children of working mothers may be in "home day care" (that is, they are cared for either in their own home or in the sitter's), while fully another 40% are in "family day care," where a sitter outside the home cares for four to six children. "It is an open issue for children of every age," he says. Says Psychologist Michael Meyerhoff, who spent 13 years in the Harvard Pre-School Project: "If there...
...avuncular concern that Bradlee should avoid trips in the station's helicopter. Bradlee was furious and used the whirlybird until two weeks before her due date last January. After six weeks, she was back at work, balancing career and motherhood, and sharing child-care duties with a baby sitter and Husband Ben Bradlee Jr., a Boston Globe reporter. Later this year, Ben Sr., 60, married to Washington Post Reporter Sally Quinn, 40, will also become a new father...
...take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into this pale, clean little engine, its camera gliding from baby-sitter to baby-sister while director John Carpenter applied the organ music like an expert masseur...
Though his choices may consist, as Garn says, of "no good alternatives," the options previously mulled and culled sound even worse. A plan called "Sea-sitter" envisioned pinioning minimissiles on a fleet of roving seaplanes. Other proposals would have made giant molehills out of mountains: one called for sticking the missiles inside mountains for protection, and another would have placed each missile at a peak's southern foot, thus providing a natural barrier wall, since the Pentagon expects the Soviet CBMs to come gliding in over the North Pole. The Continuous Air Alert Carrier sounds space age; in fact...
Today, 13 clever and elegant novels later, the question still stands. Loitering With Intent may be as close to an answer as Spark intends to give. Her heroine, Fleur Talbot, is an English writer not unlike herself starting out in a London bed-sitter three decades ago. She takes a job as secretary to a dotty group calling itself the Autobiographical Association, and quickly progresses from helping the members with grammar to embellishing and inventing the very lives they are recounting...