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Morgan hopes to illuminate the intricate journey women’s swimwear has taken. “The bikini can mean very different things to different generations,” she says. “I hope a knowledge of its beginnings can help readers better understand its contemporary cultural meanings...
April and the nurse discuss the speech therapy Miles has been receiving through the Boston Public Schools. He’s made progress, though April tells the nurse that other people can only understand 20 percent of what he says. He hasn’t had much success at sentences either. Miles gestures for another sticker, and now, Spongebob Squarepants is on his other cheek. They discuss the hospitalization, and the nurse asks whether his father has since cleared all the peanut butter out of his place. “He better have,” April responds. Oblivious, Miles...
...People who don’t have children do not understand how little things throw you off...They don’t think like a parent. ‘You cannot bring your daughter to work?’ That really fucks you up,” Sebastián says. “Really, I’m still reeling from...
...come to the Tea Party, they're angry, they're hysterical, they're panicked, and they need someone to tell [them] what to do to fix all this," says Christen Varley of the Boston Tea Party. "We have to talk them off the ledge and bring them around to understand that they have a role and a responsibility." Varley, 40, is a smart, fast-talking woman who knows that winning a competitive game requires mastering its rules. "People want to change the system. They want less government involvement," she says. "But they need to understand how it works right...
...McIntyre wonders whether Severen’s attempt on his father’s life might have been, for the son, “his best, his most meaningful assertion of self”—an assertion that Sunraider never made. Sunraider’s inability to understand himself is illustrated when, as a filmmaker, he is unable to identify why a particular film reel stirs him to terrible wonderment. He can only ask himself: “Why these images, and what was their power...