Word: hearths
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...much attention to the tube, treating it like visual Muzak or a cozy fireplace for the family to gather round. According to the authors of Where Does the Time Go?, a survey on leisure released last week by United Media Enterprises, television is "the new American hearth-a center for family activities, conversation and companionship...
...world where Harvard Law School hasn't been invented yet, and Success means Sucession. Pippin sets out to find true fulfillment, charging into War, sliding into Flesh, plotting Revolution, and finally finding the answer to his burning question smouldering in The Hearth--the simple life of the family, with a widow Catherine (Susan Power...
...Although presented as a true chronicle the events tend towards the fantastic from the initial sequence in which Deride disappears in a black silk balloon. Yet such events are treated as commonplace (if confusing) as is sexual mutability. Neither ghost nor devil is long absent from the Zinn hearth...
...chilling coup de théátre, the principals are led into the asylum, gibbering as they warn of the dangers of idle minds. All are pacified by the set's flickering light: the very picture of the modern family, at peace in front of the hearth...
Jake's mother Helen (Frances Sternhagen) is a tyrant of the hearth. She has X-ray eyes, but she can discern no conceivable virtue in anyone who disputes her dictums about food, home furnishings and the proper cowing of a child. She has a deep-freeze heart, and Jake had been stored there until he could be thawed out by externally approved success at the newspaper. For Jake's mother and father, the Times is the Talmud...