Word: asphalting
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...returned. He fled: from a drunken, child-like wife, and a dank, frame-house row-home apartment. From wealthy in-laws, and cloyingly supportive parents. From the town of Mt. Judge, Pa., once greener, once marked by the men that lived in it; from the city of Brewer, its asphalt and industries. He left a baby son, Nelson, and the promise of a second, unborn, child...
WHERE HAS TOMMY FLOWERS GONE? Tommy is a sort of Holden Caulfield at 30, an asphalt urchin who is tart, smart and often touching...
Tommy, played with intense virtuosity by Robert Drivas, isn't going anywhere. He grew up in St. Petersburg, Fla., but views that town, and his family, as a deadly bog. He has become an asphalt urchin of Manhattan, where he cunningly cadges an existence off the body of a society that he believes is sick, bloated and dying...
...traffic-jammed freeway, exhaust smoke billowing into the air, while across the bay is Sea World, an aquarium aswarm with tourists and back-dropped by San Diego's busy Lindbergh International Field. Inside the camp's palisades, the pace is equally lively. Cars roll endlessly along the asphalt alleys while children splash in the tepid water...
...almost unbelievable that people come here in such numbers," he says. "Perhaps it's because people raising families can't afford hotels. We are really one of the greatest baby-sitting organizations in the country." Ever since Campland opened two years ago, says Willis, its steaming asphalt expanse has been chockablock full. Now, with its success assured, he plans to branch out to Mexico, where a network of 22 Camplands is scheduled to rise over the next several years. After that, it can be only a matter of time before someone decides to pave over Colorado...