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...similar theme of disappearing family members gets an updated tweak in Mermaids, when a normally inattentive father treats his daughter and her friend to a Manhattan weekend. It doesn't take an especially nasty-minded reader to suspect immediately where Daddy spends his afternoons while the girls are napping. Eisenberg goes along with the ruse by delaying details for maximum damage to the cad who would use his child as a cover...
...glad the guy was caught. I hope he goes to jail for a long time-maybe one or two or three years." --Ami Reader, 8, on hearing that the individual suspected of stealing $30 from her and her sister's lemonade stand was caught...
...laws could be irrelevant and mandatory counseling redundant, especially when one considers the boom in voluntary counseling. At a convention in Washington, "Smart Marriages, Happy Families," therapists from around the world gathered to share findings and techniques. Some events, like the lecture on "Hot Monogamy," were reminiscent of a Reader's Digest article. Other ideas, such as church-based programs that ask engaged couples to fill out marital "inventories," seemed promisingly pragmatic. The present is always struggling against the past. Much as the laid-back breakups of 20 years ago arose from the hard-bitten marriages of an earlier time...
...bottom line is that the campaign is a misfire, full of mixed messages. The last line of the essay in TV Guide, just after the celebration of cerebral-free non-activity, asks the reader to "climb the highest figurative mountaintop and proclaim, with all the vigor and shrillness that made Roseanne a household name, that TV is good." But "Roseanne," an ABC success that ended its run last season, always required a cerebrum for optimum enjoyment...
...author follows his characters with care and a measure of affection, and so does the reader. Lennon does not condescend, or marvel at what fools these mortals be. He lets the single survivor of the crash, an old Italian storekeeper named Bernardo, reunite with his American son after a period of walking around dazed and frightened. But what his narration says is roughly this: Most lives are tolerable but fairly dull, a bit confused, and very unlikely to change. Glorious messenger does not come riding, alas. Or so Lennon sees things now. He is quite convincing, and probably right...