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Your ten-year-old locks himself in the bathroom with his best friend. Half an hour later, he comes out with his eyebrows shaved off, looking like a child from Planet X or someone undergoing chemotherapy.
By Keith EisnerJanuary 1995I’m not sure I like any of the three lines that always work for me. They’re all from the “Did you ever notice?” category of jokes, an overused category, but one with which even rookie comedians can kill the most sober of audiences.
By Mark WisniewskiDecember 1994The full-page ads by big corporations proclaim peace on earth, when all they really want is another piece of the earth.
By Sy SafranskyDecember 1994She waits tables on the breakfast shift at Honey’s, out by the interstate. Late one night, she gets a phone call from her sister: her father has had a stroke; they don’t know if he’s going to make it.
By Elizabeth BrownriggDecember 1994“Mask her!”, “No nemina!”, “He’s beating her up again”
By Our ReadersNovember 1994I knew well enough that, without drastic cause, mothers like mine do not entrust their adolescent sons to aunts like Louise. Surely, Mother would have kept me among her own people if there had been any.
By William LuvaasOctober 1994How old is the habit of denial? We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know. The public was told that old Dresden was bombed to destroy strategic railway lines. There were no railway lines in that part of the city. But it would be years before that story came to the surface.
By Susan GriffinOctober 1994Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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