Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite dead yet, but by dusk Ohio's sixth largest city is pretty much out cold for the night. With office vacancies at 22%, the evening rush hour is largely a function of urgency rather than congestion: nobody wants to be caught downtown after dark. By 6 Elder-Beerman, the last big department store since Lazarus closed its doors in January, is nearly empty. Outside a few remaining stragglers hurry to catch buses for the outlying suburbs and strip malls, leaving behind an uneasy mix of panhandlers, police and security guards. The only other substantial signs of life...
...Carpenter, love songs aren't mainly about passion, and love isn't only what you felt for the person you slept with until the night before last. It can be the memory of an elder sibling whose departure from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark...
...after quote about the Panama Canal treaty. "I said, 'Arthur, why don't you call Ellsworth Bunker and see what he has to say?' Arthur got a quote from Bunker a few minutes later. Then I said, 'What about Averell Harriman?' He got a quote from him. Then another elder statesmen, and another. Finally...
Then there are his two heterosexual brothers, whom he loves and whose interests he would like to promote. Ryan, the elder, faces a divorce he does not want. Tony is in a situation much like Patrick's: being propelled toward marriage to someone he no longer loves. The O'Neils are a close-knit clan from Boston's working-class suburbs, fiercely loyal people who are usually at cross-purposes because they find it almost impossible to speak their mind directly...
...authentic awareness of the ambiguity of the women's position -- they are being exploited, after all -- which requires a lifetime for her to resolve. That's good, and so is her abrasive relationship with a kid sister (Lori Petty), a pitcher on the team who resents her elder sibling's cool, dispassionate competence...