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...They're reliable. "Animated characters don't get busted," says Groening, "and they don't get old." Maggie has not aged a day. Homer can't get much fatter or balder. Marge's bouffant will always look like a neatly trimmed blue fir. Bart frets about graduating from fourth grade, but fate and good ratings will keep him there for life. Lisa, the poor stranded sensitive intellectual, will never escape Springfield...
Also, both Owen and Baker encourage prospective customers to view the birds as they grow older and fatter. Owen's farm includes a section designated for petting the animals, which include rabbits, cows, pigs, chickens and goats, as well as turkeys...
...fact that pre-frosh weekend happened to take place at the height of last spring's problems certainly didn't encourage prospective Black first-years to choose Harvard over another school--a competing institution that not only may have offered a more positive interracial environment, but a fatter scholarship check to boot...
...were really into longshots, the price on the Minnesota Twins was even fatter, 120-1 in some places, up to as much as 200-1 in others...
What ever happened to the family novel, that sturdy fictional genre that tracked unfolding generations, changing times, hovering fates? Mostly it went commercial, with volumes -- the fatter the better -- designed to be hauled up the best-seller lists. So it is encouraging when a fresh and talented writer takes the category seriously. Anna Quindlen clearly believes in writing what you know. For most of the past decade she has chronicled her husband, their kids, her mother and grandmother in her New York Times columns. Three years ago, many of her pieces were collected in a book, accurately titled Living...