Word: bedrooms
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...care that two-thirds of 8-to-18-year-olds and one-third of 2-to-7-year-olds already have TVs in their bedroom, as the Kaiser Family Foundation reported last year. We just assume their parents have tuned out all the research suggesting that children and television shouldn't be left alone together. Or maybe they need a spot for the 19-in. set displaced by that new home-theater system. Whatever the rationale, we're not buying it. Our three have-nots will have to make do with the Panasonic...
...husband and I don't have a TV in our bedroom; why should our kids? Bedrooms are for quiet activities like reading, daydreaming or sleeping--and for storage of mounds of clean laundry...
...listen to all those anti-TV activists; it may as well be me. A typical comment from Joan Anderson, author of Getting Unplugged and Breaking the TV Habit: "TV is not a member of the family; it's a stranger. Would you let a stranger into your child's bedroom?" Amen...
...sets are wheeled in and out--a window, a chair, a broken chestnut tree. John Napier's design is often handsome, in its burnished browns and greens, but he and Caird don't seem up to the story's more difficult physical challenges: a fire set in Rochester's bedroom in the middle of the night, or Jane's first encounter with Rochester, when he is thrown from a horse on his way home. If you can't find a way to stage a horse accident convincingly, you might as well have the fellow just walk in the front door...
...pursuit of her own line, Nicole Vaughn took her design training and experience downtown to East 7th Street. With a storefront reminiscent of a girlfriend's bedroom, Nicole Vaughn offers classics with a modern flair. "Every time you walk in it's a different store," she explains. Her mix of casual, comfortable separates coordinated to suit the ever-changing needs of the creative working woman has a dedicated following. Her clients have been known to come in with sketches, especially for special occasion dresses ($150-$300). Vaughn is passionate about a shopping atmosphere and clothes that flatter all figures, including...