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DIED. VICTOR MILLS, 100, ingenious engineer who changed babies--and parenting--forever with the invention of the first mass-marketed disposable diaper; in Tucson, Ariz. Mills used his granddaughter as a guinea pig for the innovation that ushered in the throwaway culture. Hired by Procter & Gamble in 1926, he also worked on such household staples as Ivory soap and Pringles...
...Nature of Pain" and "The Story of the Monkeys of the Shitty Island," has enough comedy and matter-of-fact prose to keep the narrative moving along quickly. However, beneath the deceptive surface-simplicity, the novel is so richly textured that it deserves repeated reading. Filled with brilliant throwaway lines ("her voice like a little broom sweeping off the dust that had piled up on the slates of a venetian blind"), its keen observations about relationships are reminiscent of Wong Kar Wai's 1995 film "Chungking Express...
...glad to read that a covenant marriage, more difficult to dissolve than the traditional one, is being offered by Louisiana [WASHINGTON DIARY, July 7]. In this age of throwaway everything, even marriages have become disposable. Lenient attitudes toward divorce contribute to a devaluation of marriage. It is no longer the sacred union it was in the past. I agree that one important way to avoid a divorce is to prevent a bad marriage from taking place. I like the idea of counseling before a license is issued. If couples truly believe they will be married "till death do us part...
...Hoogenboom, a wonderfully iconoclastic historian at Brooklyn College, has written two books on Hayes in the firm belief that history has shortchanged him, and in no small part because of a throwaway line by the brilliant but careless author Thomas Wolfe, who described Hayes along with Arthur, James Garfield and Benjamin Harrison as "lost Americans" with "gravely vacant and bewhiskered faces...
...less somnolent than it looks. Sam manages to recover a lost love (shiningly portrayed by Elizabeth Pena) but the countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing it, the strangeness lurking beneath the bland surfaces of American life...