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...Even that nether region under the radiators would pass the white glove test. This wouldn't be worth mentioning, except there's a lot of this going around. Sen. Richard Shelby lives on my street and we marveled Tuesday morning about how the street was spilling over with black trash bags. A lot of closets being cleaned out. I told the Senator about my own and how I'd blitzed the kitchen cabinets, tossing stale spices and ancient condiments, and then trimmed the ivy around the windows, which I then washed. "There's a lot of nervous energy around. Gives...
Part of the thrill of reading his tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...empty recesses of stark minimalism. She understands that people collect stuff, and finds a way to let them, without causing clutter. This balancing act lends her interiors a certain timelessness. Her own home, which she decorated seven years ago, mixing custom-made pieces with a chair found in the trash, is still being photographed for decorating magazines...
...simplifies computing. Start with the "desktop" that welcomes you when you boot your machine: it's bare except for a Recycle Bin to trash unwanted files. Your eyes are drawn to a fat Start button, as luminescent as a hard candy, that opens the Start Menu, the key to everything on your computer. The menu is arranged sensibly, with frequently used programs grouped on the left and file folders (organized by media type--text, pictures, etc.), settings, search and other utilities on the right. You can still drag favorite programs onto the desktop screen. But in a kind of Keep...
...portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...