Word: warped
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...carries that puppy as if it were her child, but soon Britney Spears, 23, will be exquisitely aware of the difference between the two. The news that Spears and her hubby Kevin Federline, 27, are expecting a baby moved the celebrity press into warp drive, and it's a safe bet this gestation period will be more closely watched than an endangered panda's. Among the first into action: Parents magazine, which released a poll it took before the pregnancy became public, in which more than half of parents said the couple should wait to start a family. What...
...ideology the Downtown Plan is sensibly deferential to the existing warp and woof of the city. In ambition, however, it is reminiscent of the Olympian urban-renewal texts of a generation ago, when planners presumed to know how to recast cities from scratch. It puts the city on record against unnecessary shadow and wind and disapproves of mirrored windows (visually off-putting), big street-level airline ticket offices (too boring for pedestrians) and the profusion of newspaper-vending machines (inconvenient for pedestrians). No San Franciscan, the plan continues, should have to walk more than 900 feet to find a sunny...
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...Waffler: Perhaps most infuriating of all is the man who fills up the coveted waffle-maker with batter, then walks away into some kind of time warp where he absolutely loses track of when to return for his waffle. Come on, man, we all know that those things are on a 2:50 timer! Thus the rest of the people in the dining hall are forced to stand around and deal with the moral conundrum of removing the waffle from the iron or standing there and waiting for the delinquent Waffler to return from his other affairs (probably blocking...
...Wagner boldly goes beyond satire in The Chrysanthemum Palace. He finds surprising depths to plumb, even in the land of the superficial. The question that drives the book is, Can children ever escape the crushing gravitational fields of their parents? The answer, it turns out, is that sometimes even warp speed isn't fast enough. --By Lev Grossman