Word: couch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eight years later, the time chimes yesterday and Paul and Susan have loved and divorced. After one last torrid afternoon, Paul wraps himself in a blanket and flops onto a couch to look at slides--his life with Susan etched eternally in ektachrome...
...Gracie asks a visitor. "Inna gonna write-on da walls," she hastily assures her parents, who are in the living room. The visitor asks if she remembers the old language. "Yes," Ginny replies quickly. "No, you don't!" interrupts Tom Kennedy from the front-room couch. "I don't know why you are lying about that!" Ginny reaches playfully for Gracie's pen. "Keep-you-hands-off-me," laughs Gracie. Tom Kennedy speaks again. "You live in a society, you've got to speak the language," he says. "They don't want to be associated...
...after lights-out? Dreams, of course. Few black-and-white drawings have caught their incongruous logic as well as The Garden of Abdul Gasazi (Houghton Mifflin; $8.95). A suburban boy takes a nap on a magical couch. When he rises, he finds himself in a twilit garden, owned by an ominous wizard in a fez. Nothing is quite the same, not even his pet. The fat man's hobby: turning pet dogs into ducks. Long after the spell ends, an eerie residue remains, like a dream that persists in the waking world. Chris Van Allsburg's narrative leans...
...brink of luring Potter into her motel-room sack, she sings again--a cockroach doing Donna Summer. But bitchy glamour appeals to Potter; he wants to try life with Jessica again. In a bizarre scene meant to symbolize his anxiety about leaving Marilyn, Potter hyperventilates on a Bloomingdale's couch. This sequence seems to perplex Reynolds most of all. He looks lost portraying a character who has no control of his emotions...
...story he told was eerily reminiscent of the Sharon Tate murders six months earlier. As Jeffrey R. MacDonald, then a captain in the Green Berets, described the events, he woke up on a living room couch at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970 to find his home invaded. Three young men and a woman holding a lighted candle chanted, "Acid is groovy! Kill the pigs!" The intruders beat and stabbed him, he said, and when he came to hours later he found the slaughtered bodies of his pregnant wife Colette, 26, and daughters Kimberly, 5, and Kristen...