Word: exurban
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Simon's lyrics express a mixture of urban and exurban complaints: carbon monoxide ("the ole Detroit perfume"), thin motel walls ("Couple in the next room/Bound to win a prize"), everybody's Congressman ("He's avoiding me"). Simon has always been a fine rock guitarist-indeed, his guitar was usually all the accompaniment S & G had at their concerts-but the new LP is filled with the unexpected lights and shadows of a newly refined classical technique. The best thing in the album, though, is a number that Simon just sings, leaving the accompaniment to others...
...view of its author's career and its readers' lives. While Sheed is intent on letting the novel speak for itself, his writing undercuts and bolsters his subject at appropriate turns: "But enough meaning is enough. The book can also be read simply as a fiendish compendium of exurban manners--the dinner party scenes, the protocol of adultery, the care and neglect of children..." And though Sheed's opinions are hard-edged, he is never pedantic, or in any other way academic...
...Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. staged a modish little executive brain-storming seminar in exurban New York last week. The subject was the future of television programming; the guest thinkers included Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Esquire Editor Harold Hayes, Ford Foundation "Social Development" Officer Roger Wilkins-and Tommy Smothers...
...first full-length character, old Leander Wapshot. "Bathe in cold water every morning," Leander counseled his sons. "Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord." Yet literary means, like wars and prices, tend to escalate. In Bullet Park, trying to cope with up-to-date exurban alarums and filial excursions-including creeping despair and the generation gap -has widened farther than ever the consistent gap between Cheever's surface realism and the bizarre events and distorted perspectives of the moral allegories he pursues...
Plum & Apricot. His latest show is also largely women-but, reflecting the fact that De Kooning has become a year-round resident of The Springs, near East Hampton on the tip of Long Island, they are now red-lipped exurban earth goddesses, bitchily toothy yet pudgily placid. These women blend into their surroundings of golden beaches, russet leaves and close-cropped lawns. And they are accompanied by other members of the family circle. De Kooning's Cybele has found a froglike mate, titled Man, a leering Cyclopean nude, contorted in some private courting ritual. Their bloated offspring, as seen...