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...women who still expend the psychic energy that keeps a household going (Is Dave & Buster's right for Ethan's birthday? Christmas here or at my sister's?). As for chores, let's define the term. A chore is the thing that has to be done right now or all hell breaks loose. A chore is putting in an extra load of laundry or cleaning up after the kids before you get rec-room Pompeii. It's not installing an antique doorknob, planting tomatoes or grilling salmon for company, which are fun. Hobbies--surfing the Web, working out, tinkering with...
...While the job of a landscape architect used to take a T square, years of training and a very fertile imagination, now anyone with the right software and a PC can design six or seven backyards in an afternoon. Mowing the lawn is not generally regarded as a fun chore, but souping up your mower with electronic cruise control and power steering makes it a vastly more enjoyable experience. True, the tractor costs almost as much as a compact car, but if El Nino and global warming are what they're cracked up to be, those added features may just...
With the cables in place, Solovyev joined Vinogradov inside the lab, and the crewmen began their next chore, looking for breaches in Spektr's skin caused by the collision. The cosmonauts had originally been ordered not to turn the place upside down hunting for holes but rather just to scan for what NASA called blue sky showing through the walls. With the work going so well, however, controllers approved a more thorough search, and Vinogradov and Solovyev went so far as to disassemble Foale's stationary bicycle in order to create maneuvering room. "Michael," Solovyev joshed, "your riding days...
...fried cusk (whatever that may be), Harvard students have plenty of writers and scientists to discuss, but meals are often structured around class sections, rehearsals or publication meetings. The result is that dinner, for example (which must fall between 5:00 and 7:15), becomes more of a chore than a welcome interruption where the business of the hour is appreciating aromas of fresh spices, distinguishing subtle flavors from one another, discussing tender meats and succulent fruit and generally reveling in the joy of mastication and subsequent digestion...
Maybe a little careering delirium would have helped. It may seem perverse to demand that an outrageous film go still further, faster, wilder. But if it had, Crash wouldn't be the honorable chore it finally is--less a joyride than an endless traffic...