Anatomy of a Divorce - Features. Divorce has many witnesses, many victims.
It is a lurid duet that entices observers to the dance; the pas de deux expands, flowers into a monstrous choreography and draws in friends, children and relatives. Each divorce is the death of a small civilization. Two people declare war on each other, and their screams and tears and days of withdrawal infect their entire world with the bacilli of their pain.
There are no clean divorces. Divorces should be conducted in abattoirs, surgical wards, blood banks or funeral homes. I have studied the divorces of my friends and learned some things. I think it would have been easier if Barbara had died. When I moved out of our house into my apartment, I told myself one thing: I did not want to die alone. This Harvard Alum Barely Survived College. The Undertaker's Racket - Jessica Mitford. Jessica Mitford's curiosity about undertakers was "whetted by the funeral trade magazines which opened up for me the bizarre world of the 'average' American funeral, far more curious than the death customs of ancient days or remote tribes.
Further investigation convinced me that the fall implications of the funeral industry are undreamt of by the average American, even in his nightmares. " Her book, The American Way of Death, will be published this summer by Simon & Schuster. In 1960, Americans spent, according to the only available government estimate, $1.6 billion on funerals, setting thereby a new national and world record.
The $1.6 billion is, as we shall see, only a portion of what was actually spent on what the death industry calls "the care and memorialization of the dead. " The $1.6 billion figure that is given for our national burial bill is furnished by the U.S. Funeral flowers are not included in the Department of Commerce figures. "How much should a funeral cost? " Kim Jong-un wants more mini-golf. The Swiss-educated leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, believed to be in his late 20s, is showing an interest in golf, giving the order to construct mini-golf courses at a newly built amusement park.
The North’s state media reported that when Kim visited the Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground on July 25 with his wife Ri Sol-ju, he “looked around for places to build mini-golf courses.” In a documentary film that aired on Monday, a document appeared titled “Report on the Procedure of Building Mini-Golf Equipment.” In the report, Kim wrote on March 29 that the landscapers for the Rungna amusement park should “plant trees between each golf facility for providing shade.” There, he himself drew pictures of people taking a break in the shade of a big tree and made a specific explanation next to it. Tim Goodman at TCA: 'But I Still Don't Like Your Show' This story first appeared in the Aug. 17 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Through the years as a TV critic, I've had plenty of uncomfortable run-ins, all at the biannual Television Critics Association Press Tour, with people I wrote possibly mean -- but definitely true -- things about: Jeff Zucker at NBC (numerous times but most notably when I questioned his legacy or lack thereof), hostile schedulers, any number of polite but pointed PBS executives and one Fox development exec whose mother I made cry twice -- when I wrote her daughter's department should be fired and when I wrote they should be shot. PHOTOS: TCA 2012: FOX All-Star Party. A Candid Conversation With Total Recall’s Original Three-Breasted Woman. The New Yorker. Slack and the Art of Exhaustion. THE SPORTING SCENE about distance runner Alberto Salazar and the notion of “slack.”
For the first half of the nineteen-eighties, the greatest distance runner in the world was Alberto Salazar.
Economics. London Olympics '12. Weird/creepy articles. Can Bees Make Tupperware? Name: Debbie ChachraTitle: Associate professor of materials science, Franklin W.
'I was sexually abused by my older brother as a kid. Why do I have to be addicted to speed now too?' Peter Dazeley/Getty Images Most children in abusive environments are not taught safe and effective methods of self-soothing -- and many turn to drugs and alcohol.
Longform. National Geographic - Inspiring People to Care About the Planet Since 1888. Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts - Slate Magazine. China’s wealthy and influential sometimes hire body doubles to serve their prison sentences. Mat Honan: The four things you need to do right now to avoid getting hacked. Photograph by Jon Snyder.
Last Friday evening, a hacker got into Mat Honan’s Apple account, remotely erased the data on his iPhone, iPad, and MacBook, deleted his Google account, commandeered his Twitter account, and then posted a string of nasty stuff under Honan’s name. Until recently, Honan, who’s a writer at Wired and one of my favorite tech journalists, worked at Gizmodo, and his Twitter account was still linked to the tech blog’s main Twitter page—so for about 15 minutes, the hacker was able to post a bunch of foul-mouthed, racist stuff there, too.
Farhad Manjoo is a technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the author of True Enough. Follow. Allen Carr, William Burroughs, Richard Klein: Books on quitting smoking. Bake at 350 degrees? Oven temperature is uncontrollable, and we should stop trying to micromanage it. Noa Younse/iStockphoto.
“Preheat oven to 350 degrees.” I hate this phrase. First, as George Carlin pointed out, it’s linguistically absurd—you don’t preheat an oven, you heat it. Talking to your children about sex: Sinikka Elliott’s Not My Kid, reviewed. Illustration by Sean Ford.
I want my 16-year-old daughter to have a happy and satisfying sex life.