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...that the BBC seems too embarrassed to give a figure; the star herself was paid precisely $3,750 for the entire series, with half that much still to come from the American broadcasts. There are no sets unless you count some sheds, a car and a carport. There are no costumes; obviously Woodhouse was born in a blue sweater, plaid skirt and sensible English shoes. The filming is on the level of the average home movie, and the action consists solely of Woodhouse putting mutts and masters through their paces. The dogs appear to be enjoying themselves; the owners...
Hugh Rogers, 20, lives with his divorced mother on the flat fringes of a city that is never named, perhaps because he cannot distinguish it from "all the suburbs, the duplex development motorhome supermarket parking lot used cars carport swingset white rocks juniper imitation bacon bits special gum wrappers where in five different states he had lived the last seven years." His astronomical address, 14067½-C Oak Valley Road, mocks the idea of a coherent community. His job as a checker in a nearby supermarket by the freeway leads nowhere, and neither, as far as he can tell, does...
...stuffed the wallet into his shirt pocket and went out to where the sun was knocking-down and dragging-out the chill. He pulled a garden hose out of a tool trunk on the carport and stretched out one end of it. Squatting, hurting, at the back of the the night before. He careened against the wall and his shoulder erupted again in fire. It seared, like it had last night when the lizard-skin boots kept swinging into him, fireballs exploding when they landed. He had already made himself forget whoever it was attached to the boots...
...stuffed the wallet into his shirt pocket and went out to where the sun was knocking-down and dragging-out the chill. He pulled a garden hose out of a tool trunk on the carport and stretched out one end of it. Squatting, hurting, at the back of the car--the car she had let him have when he left home--he fit the hose over the exhaust pipe and draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned...
...Edward Carr paid $7,442 for a quarter-acre lot in 1969; now the price is $23,000. That accounts for almost half of the rise in the price that Carr charges for his four-bedroom homes, from $40,950 to $74,823 (he also has taken away the carport and fireplace...