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...looking like the soulless building where Isabella Rossellini was kept in Blue Velvet; the images of secret lovemaking on dank and silent Washington summer evenings; new old girlfriends turning up on a weekly basis, talking of being told not to talk. One could swim down into this stuff or pretend to sail above it (as this paragraph somewhat does) and swim while sailing...
...more industrial materials find their way into our homes, worker-drone felt, the gray stuff used in refrigerator engines and as gaskets, has moved in too. The Feltup chair, from Minneapolis, Minn., designers Blu-Dot, uses felt made from recycled sweaters and socks for its slinglike seat. Furniture-design team Burning Relic makes a table with a 1-in.-thick slab of felt. British designer Anne Kyyro uses felt on blinds and lampshades...
...light stuff like mysteries and romances, I found the liveliest discussions in the "books" section of America Online. Postings are minimal, but the live chats are fun. I joined the Whodunit on Wednesday group, which reads a new mystery every week. When I confessed during a chat that I hadn't finished a Jonnie Jacobs book they were discussing, they kindly talked around the ending so as not to ruin it for me. I felt so indebted that I stayed up until 3 a.m. to finish the 400-page thriller by Stuart Woods that they were planning to discuss next...
...revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed a lot less Visa debt and a lot more intangible stuff. What they needed to do, he advised, was "build a bridge between...
...lifestyle. For example, more than 100 U.S. cities today host "simplicity circles" affiliated with the Cornell University-created Seeds of Simplicity program based in Los Angeles. Then there is the Center for a New American Dream, a Takoma Park, Md., group whose motto is "More fun, less stuff!" Says director Betsy Taylor: "This isn't just about unspoiling kids. It's about reclaiming our kids from a toxic commercial culture that has spun out of control...