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Nothing seems to happen in these stories, except in the ordinary way of plain people. Relatives from the city come to a small town for a visit with a cousin. Two brothers, seeking the old homestead where they were born, find that it has been uprooted to make way for a wildlife preserve. In a nursing home, two elderly widows who are lifelong friends become estranged, then reconciled. Still, only the surface of these characters may be viewed as plain. In her seemingly effortless prose style, Munro has etched portraits of people living underground dramas of high intensity...
When John and Donna Pflueger moved from Flagstaff, Ariz., to a remote national forest homestead outside the city last fall, their rustic life amid the ponderosa pine soon took on shades of vintage Hitchcock. "I have lived in remote areas all my life," said John. "But I've never seen anything like this before...
Jobs made his way through Homestead High, recalls Electronics Teacher John McCollum, "as something of a loner. He always had a different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...folks have moved altogether from the King's Road homestead, according to London directory assistance. CBS has no specific time slot yet for the movie, but I'm sure it's going to be a smash. What...
...folks have moved altogether from the King's Road homestead, according to London directory assistance. CBS has no specific time slot yet for the movie, but I'm sure it's going to be a smash. What...