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...Leila, the Cambridge academic who supports her director husband despite his frequent philandering, is the common tie that binds the rest of the book together. Finding herself with an unfilled space in her life after the death of her best friend, Leila decides to write a book about Becky Burgess, a young woman suspected of inciting her teenage love-toy to kill her husband. Meanwhile, Mary, Leila's housekeeper, desperately conceals the fact that, at 61 years of age, she finds herself living on the street after her husband leaves her for a younger woman...
...finger, pedestrian can control traffic signals, turning green lights read and bringing cars to a virtual standstill. But how powerful is the cross-walk button? can it really turn a traffic light red or is it simply a ruse devised to calm impatient street-crossers? according to Don Burgess associate traffic engineer at the Boston Department of Transportation, the answer...
...some cases the walk signals are pre-programmed to work anyway," says Burgess. In these instances, pressing the button accomplishes nothing At other intersections, however, burgess claims that pressing the corsswalk button means "the difference between the light ever turning...
...Burgess believes that Cambridge pedestrains have a harder time crossing streets than their Boston counterparts." The streets are narrower, and [Cambridge allows] traffic to turn across a walk. there is less of that in Boston." If cars are permitted to turn gained total cross-walk hegemony...
...rapturous, moment she manages to get knocked up. It's that the man who bent her back over the hood of a car outside a pub one drunken night is old enough to be her father. Is, indeed, a friend of her father's. Is, in fact, George Burgess (Pat Laffan), who lives across the street and coaches the football team of one of her younger brothers. Is, incurably, an "ejit" (idiot in Dublin slang), the kind of old fool who mutters "A1" after having his way with Sharon and then boasts around the pub about what a good "ride...