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Parents who opt for live-in child care must often search long and hard for the sort of dedicated young woman who favors pushing strollers over pursuing more glamorous careers or beer-swilling boyfriends. Last year William and Denise Fischer figured they had found the right nanny in Olivia Riner...
Despite its obsession with dieting, the U.S. population seems to grow fatter every year. And so does the industry tailored to respond to the needs and neuroses of those who are fighting, and largely failing, to keep their waistlines under control. Americans spent more than $30 billion last year on...
That sense of belonging seems to gentle his judgments. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the builder of his family's fortune (and of the New York Central Railroad), was a whiskey-swilling, street-fighting parvenu who bullied his wife and children, cheated the public and gave away pittances from the $100 million...
Anyway, the "vital and rich culture" that Hart mourns comprises freshmen swilling booze from hip flasks in The Stadium, blind dates with Radcliffe girls (sic) and parties at the Porcellian and Hasty Pudding clubs. Some culture.
His admiration is for figures like Laurence Olivier, whom he glimpses backstage, sweating, swilling champagne, denying desperate illness -- and making up to go onstage once more and transform despair into dominance. His pity is for someone like Garbo, who has allowed herself to be victimized by her beauty's decay...