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...Nuland points out that for most of the elderly the villain is old age. Bodies wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...
...Chicago housing project. Kotlowitz notes that Mother Teresa has visited Chicago's underclass -- and was honestly shocked. "We're talking about second and third generations of children growing in communities like this. It's breaking the spiritual back of the people," he says. And each time that particular wheel is rediscovered, he notes, "we say, 'Oh, my God.' And then nothing is done...
...staff is wrong to support such a measure which will invariably make it easier for teenagers to poison themselves and kill others while sitting behind the wheel of a car. That is, unless the staff (which I assume supports the protection of health, happiness and life) wishes to be inconsistent itself...
This town, Gilbert feels, is what keeps him from doing better. Home for the Grapes is Endora, obviously christened by screenwriter Peter Hedges after the verb "to endure." Run-down and depressed, Endora suffers from and delights in the great wheel of American capitalism. What keeps Gilbert planted in this morbid spot is Momma (Darlene Cates). Most of the time Momma sits planted on a sofa in front of the TV, where she sleeps at night, and where the girls dutifully pull up a table at meal times. Meanwhile, the house, which Mr. Grape built and died in, has rotted...
...process, the product has deteriorated. Riding around in their Mercedes, the Bigwigs right now probably don't care. But when more people tune in for Wheel of Fortune reruns this year than the NBA finals, the message might get across...