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...morning, Rose Meyers, a middle-aged Jewish English teacher who can't sleep, wanders down to the kitchen of her ritzy Long Island home to grab some nonfat yogurt and trips over the body of her estranged husband, the millionaire Richie, stabbed through the heart with a carving knife from Williams-Sonoma. Because he cheated on Rosie for 25 years and then dumped her, some might say the bum deserved every stainless-steel inch. Nevertheless, Rosie tries to pull the knife out of Richie's body. With hers the only fingerprints on the murder weapon, and plenty of reasons...
...Rosie goes on the lam to find the murderer. Was it Richie's old partner Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie's sister Carol, "Our Lady of the Bikini Wax"? Rosie, the last-to-know wife, vows to get the answers first. A woman...
...years of war, the nation was hell-bent on normality. Neither the Korean conflict nor McCarthyism could distract Americans from their rush to claim a place in the rapidly expanding middle class. The standard rerun of the period features sincere men in gray flannel suits and contented women in kitchen aprons smiling at Mr. Clean. And why not? Coincidentally or not, he looked a lot like their amiable President, Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...tidy backyard of the Cape Cod-style house with the cranberry shutters, Jessica DeBoer is having a picnic with her dog Miles. Her mother watches her through the blinds on the kitchen window. Everything feels so very normal. But the clock ticks loudly and the blinds all stay down and an answering machine screens the phone calls. Reporters keep calling -- and sad friends, and adoption experts -- and strangers who feel sorry for them...
...possible that the fault lies with political amateurs like Mack McLarty, the chief of staff. Like many presidents (Jackson, for example) before him, Clinton chose trusted associates for the top jobs in his "Kitchen Cabinet" rather than finding the top minds. Fortunately, there are not as many Arkansans in the inner circle as Bush had Texans. Competence, however, cannot be defined geographically...