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...prize on Easy Street, a parody of one of those game shows that are themselves a parody of the American dream. But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this he parks uselessly in their driveway, from which unlikely spot he radios the Coast Guard for marine weather reports...
...Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles out of town, where she found a pickup truck parked across the driveway to block access. McGeary took all her meals at the Best Western in the hope Billy might resurface there, and talked with Carter neighbors and friends. Says she: "My quest ended the way journalism too often does-failure." Not really. McGeary's firsthand knowledge of the hometown scene...
...Columbus, two winters ago, Furniture Executive Ernest Stern, 57, had helped his employees lift a cabinet. Then he pushed a stalled car in front of his house and shoveled snow from his driveway. These exertions made his back feel somewhat stiff, but he decided to keep a tennis date anyway. That was a mistake. After the first serve, Stern's back gave way, and he had to be helped off the court...
...part of the bargain and seek students out, not blame students for not pursuing it more actively. Fox disagrees, arguing that students should look at the money spent as an investment, not a swap. "If you want to buy a $9000 car and let it rust in the driveway, go ahead," he says...
...clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness radiating from the most ordinary places and things--the raw blue color of gravel, a shallow driveway, the symmetrical vacancies of parking lots, the abject curve in the necks of street lamps...