No one would miss the crippled man, no one went to a lonely place.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

They wondered if the crippled man had been taken from the house, if he was in a home.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

Then they gave a price for painting the outside walls of the house and the crippled man said it was too much.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

Sometimes, not often, glancing into the house, the painters caught a glimpse of the woman whom they assumed to be the wife of the crippled man they had drunk whiskey with, who had shaken hands with both of them when the agreement about the painting was made.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

In the dark of the evening they talked about the crippled man, concerned and worried as their conversation advanced since the understanding about payment for the painting had been made with him and it could easily be that when the work was finished the woman would say she knew nothing about what had been agreed, that the sum they claimed as due to them was excessive.

NEWYORKER: The Woman of the House

Failure will leave the working man unemployed, American businesses crippled, and the global economy in perpetual recession.

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Gyllenhaal, often a distractingly tic-ridden actress who relies heavily on her sex-kitten sultriness, here shows unexpected backbone as a single mother coming to terms with her own bad habits as she takes yet another chance on a much-married man who's potentially crippled by his.

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