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Lottie's neurotic elder brother resumes an obsessive affair with Elizabeth, a shallow beauty Lottie continues to resent because of snubs in their high school years. Her 21-year-old son sleeps with Elizabeth's baby-sitter, then ignores her, and when she dies in an auto accident decreed by the author to get everyone's moping started, wonders fretfully whether he is obliged to attend her funeral. Other people behave shabbily, all of them, like Lottie, largely humorless and utterly self-absorbed. An occasional good line briefly clears the prevailing swamp gas, as when Lottie sums things...
Across America, concerned taxpayers seeking redemption through reimbursement flooded government offices with calls. Most wanted to know if they owed money for their baby sitter or their housekeeper or the kid who mowed the lawn. In West Palm Beach, Florida, a perplexed person walked into an IRS office and asked for the "Zoe Baird Package" of forms. "That's all people are talking about," says Nancy Ransom, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center at Vanderbilt University. "This is not just a problem for the poor, the rich or the middle class. This is a problem for everyone...
...lower lip. "As working parents," one can imagine him saying, "Hillary and I understand the anguish of searching for quality day care for children." He could insert some touching anecdote about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea had the chicken pox and the baby- sitter failed to show. He might also mention that the lack of reliable, affordable child care is the single biggest obstacle to getting poor women off welfare and into jobs. The arduous search for a woman Attorney General, he would then admit, has only underscored the nation's child-care woes, which...
Based on Wood's initial reply, the Clinton people at first perceived no potential problem. Wood's supporters say she was later told that after White House officials learned of the baby-sitter's history, the main heat came from Capitol Hill. Administration officials counter that they hardly needed Senators to tell them that they had a political time bomb on their hands...
Burned once by his hasty pick of Zoe Baird, President Clinton awaited results of a full background check before announcing his near certain choice for U.S. Attorney General: New York Federal Judge Kimba Wood. Surprise! On Friday what should appear but another illegal-alien baby-sitter. Wood explained that when she hired the woman from Trinidad in 1986, it was not unlawful. "I made all required filings and payments," said Wood, and the baby-sitter became a legal resident in 1987. No matter. With a push from a jittery White House, Wood withdrew her name. (See related story on page...