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...beagles, macaws, raccoons, goats, geese, ponies, pigs and skunks (not descented), all welcome members of the famously unorthodox Reno household. "Daddy would come out of the bathroom and say, 'Would somebody get this' -- and you can interject pelican, otter, & boa constrictor -- 'out of here so I can take a bath,' " explains Maggy Reno Hurchalla, Janet's sister, a county commissioner in central Florida...
...that everyone's a postmodernist, even a straightforward summer megahit has moments of wry distance from itself: in Jurassic Park, a shot of merchandise at the Jurassic Park gift shop gets laughs from audiences aware that Jurassic Park toys and bubble bath are already on store shelves...
...Gopher Prairie doesn't have many young to suffocate and embitter these days. Russo's characters in the fictional town of North Bath, not far from the Vermont border, are rueful losers who, late in middle age, have known one another since grade school. They weren't all that bright then, and they don't expect much of one another now. Improvisation least of all; after several decades on adjacent bar stools, they can say one another's lines...
Nothing changes in North Bath. This is true not just of the town's continuing decay but also of the author's approach to character, which is that of commedia dell'arte. He assigns an easily recognizable peculiarity to each actor in his masque, who then exhibits his oddity whenever he is in view...
...with "single." In Winthrop, seniors might well get their own bedrooms in suites of several. In Lowell, and other places perhaps, "single" refers to one's own common room, bath, and bedroom. There are maybe a dozen such senior singles in Lowell, places that would be called junior doubles or even (shudder) sophomore triples in Winthrop; or they'd be tutor suites. This difference existed when I was an undergraduate and it persists today...