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...Burnses - there must be 20 of them in this Rhode Island home - are fiercely communal and insanely competitive. They make the Kennedys seem sluggish. They do aerobics and play touch football on the front lawn. When they're not engaged in Scrabble or an improvised singalong, they break up into speed-solving crossword teams. Come evening, there's a family talent show. Dan and Mitch duet on Pete Townshend's "My Love Opened the Door" (as if that perky tune hadn't been worn out in a half-dozen movies and commercials for J.C. Penney and NBC). And the children...
...nothing can touch Produce Pete...
...married. But on the day of the wedding, a beautiful, silvery sprite (Erica Cornejo)—the titular “sylph”—appears. She has a strange power over James that brings out his yearning and love, but every time he tries to touch her, she vanishes. When the sylph appears as they are about to take their wedding vows, James follows her into the forest and abandons his bride just as the curtains fall on the first...
...were all abstinent at one point!” she replied. “It’s not like we’re locking ourselves in our rooms and saying, ‘Don’t touch me or look at me until marriage...
David Obey has never been mistaken for having a soft touch, and his corner U.S. Capitol office is a testament to that. There, across from the dozen or so sharpened pencils piled on his desk, are two dog-eared signs taped to the gilt mirror over the marble fireplace, each bearing multiple pencil and highlighter stabs and dashes...