The red shoes were visually striking on the screen. They had Technicolor and, by golly, they were going to use it.

It was the Cabbage Patch doll and Tickle Me Elmo of its time — the thing you really hoped would be under the tree when you got up Christmas morning.

I think it will happen this week.

I believed him, stupid me. What kind of bookkeeping is that?

So you have this wonderful literary criticism in the middle of kindergarten class. The teacher says it really doesn’t matter, but the first thing she did was show the children the bathroom. This is a...