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When asked how family life will fit into their ambitious plans, young people wax creative. Many want to be independent contractors, working at home at their own hours. Some talk of "sequencing": rather than interrupting a career to stay home with children, they plan to marry early, have children quickly and think about work later. "I'll get into my career afterward," says Sheri Davis, 21, a senior at the University of Southern California. "I'm not willing to have children and put them in day care. I've baby-sat for years and taken kids to day-care centers...
Here is where theorists cannot help but wax poetic. Look at a middle-aged man and try to picture him as a baby--the task before string theorists is infinitely more difficult...
...that -- at least in the short term -- seems to be no problem. An all- female group called En Vogue looks to have lifted its name from the same putative dance craze from which Madonna borrowed the title of her most recent hit single. They also sing a kind of wax-slick dance music that seems less written than cloned. Nevertheless, they have a No. 5 hit of their own, Hold On, and an album called Born to Sing, currently residing...
...authors, artists and performers. Host Terry Gross has discussed with John Updike his love of faces ("a dermal sin") and explored comedian Martin Short's unusual adolescent fantasies. She got tough with Nancy Reagan over her memoirs but allowed actor Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) to wax lyrical about Laurence Olivier. Gross is just one of a notable number of female voices at NPR. Unlike the commercial networks, she says, "NPR never bought the idea that women's voices lack credibility...
...Excessive Self-Congratulation. Although your mother and father may indeed be very proud of you for blowing your nose, don't expect your interviewer to wax ecstatic. Don't peer into your kleenex and announce, "That was a good one!" Above all, don't attempt to continue a conversation while your fingers are anywhere in the general vicinity of your nostrils...