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What downtime there was, Mike spent at the firehouse, catnapping on the sofa or curbside, consoling the neighbors who came bearing quilts and clean socks and underwear. On days off, the men brought food and reassurance to the homes of their missing co-workers. E.J. felt guilty calling the firehouse during that time--after all, her husband was still alive--and Mike rarely checked in with...
...VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW As a play for viewers, it was pretty transparent. (So was the clothing.) As advertising, it was a coup: over 12 million (more than half of them women) watched what amounted to an hour-long underwear...
There was scandal (or, at least, some people were scandalized): our party pictures page threatened to set us up as the arbitrators of cool; our underwear ads were warmly received only in some quarters; life at The Crimson imitated The Real World, surprisingly, with love triangles and people leaving the show; and there was a rumor that I always carried a coke bottle filled with whiskey on Monday and Tuesday nights, during production. That is mostly untrue; when I drank in the building, I always did it in the open, and it was not limited to Mondays and Tuesdays...
...excitements and black-lit havens, is freedom central. "Petite" refers not to the size of the runaway, though many are mere wisps on the cusp of puberty, but to the short time the girls stay away from home: typically a few days, or until they need clean underwear...
...their early to mid-teens exercise, study and farm sweet potatoes and cabbages. They live cheek-by-jowl in tatami-mat rooms, sunny and clean but devoid of pop-star posters or any personal belongings whatsoever?the girls can't have cell phones, makeup or even their own underwear. They can leave the campus one day a month on group outings to spend a $23 monthly allowance. Parents rarely visit. The institution employs not a single trained counselor. A common reaction to this rigid rehabilitation: many girls run away. "They know how to make money," says Kazuko Isogai, the principal...