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...money, bought a big house and some farm land and assumed matriarchal ways. This was Gram, who had five daughters and, though no one seemed to think the fact very important, a husband. Her style was regal-she would stomp out at night to play bingo whenever she felt like it-and her son-in-law Dan the butcher called her the Queen of Persia. She sheltered, in her take-it-or-leave-it way, her unmarried daughters and whatever married ones happened, at any given moment, to have found their husbands redundant (men are minor irritants in this matriarchy...
...some kind of substitute for alcohol, such as tranquilizers or psychotherapy or a support group of people with similar problems. "Second, even though it's terribly unscientific, alcoholics usually do seem to need some kind of source of hope and selfesteem, or religious inspiration-whatever you want to call it-and that seems more important than hospital or psychiatric care...
...doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what Manton and Walker were after. They wanted money-lots of it-and they got it. Walker is now the highest paid football player in the world. The reports have varied, but the most reliable figures indicate that Walker signed a three-year contract for either $3.9 or $5 million...
...House is Washington's home for hawks. What the Pentagon wants, the House normally gives it-and sometimes more. But last week, by a surprisingly decisive margin of 69 votes, the House refused to give Ronald Reagan something the President had insisted, with all the persuasive flourishes of his best prime-time TV oratory, that America urgently needs to counter the Soviet Union's threatening nuclear arsenal: money to begin production of the 96-ton MX missile with its ten-warhead punch...
...Only a sorehead would fuss about too much celebration of the idea of home during the festive winter season. For that matter, home deserves a good deal of hymning all the time. There is, as the wonderful old song Home, Sweet Home established once and for all, no place like it-and this no matter what sort of place home turns out to be. What also needs to be remembered is that home, although a special place, is never merely a place...