Word: strangerness
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...easy, but it is not all that convincing. Cases of nanny abuse are much more rare than cases of parents abusing their own children. But it is easier to project our own parenting insecurities on to a stranger. And Louise Woodward was that stranger--literally a foreigner, a paid nanny living with someone else's family...
...race, sex and violence in a country discomforted by any blending of these three--the dangerous au pair and the endangered children case has hit a never in our national psyche. The Woodward case is every parent's nightmare realized. Two working parents left their infant alone with a stranger, and that stranger abused and ultimately killed their child. If the Religious Right ever needs a poster-baby for its family values arguments, it doesn't have to look very...
...Stranger in a Strange Land...
...seems to represent the woman, the outlaw, the stranger, the barbarian," she writes. "He plays with the feeble inventions of human order. Women become freer, more powerful and dangerous than men. Roles are reversed, the king becomes a woman; magic overpowers logic...
DIED. HAROLD ROBBINS, 81, narcissistic novelist whose smutty potboilers mirrored his rags-to-riches life; in Palm Springs, Calif. On a wager, Robbins wrote Never Love a Stranger (1948), the first of 23 books that sold 750 million copies worldwide. (See Eulogy below...