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...less. Here is a fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned a dream world from the Formica-and-vinyl tatters of the American dream...
...December by Saul Bellow. In a tale of two cities, Bucharest and Chicago, another Nobelist meditates on the dual natures of freedom and totalitarianism. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. The family that dines together declines together in this bittersweet novel of a brave and eccentric Baltimore household...
...business failures surged to more than 24,000, higher than in any year since 1932. Nowhere in the country was the misery of economic downturn more acute than in the factory towns of the nation's industrial heartland. As consumers lost confidence in promises of economic recovery, household spending stalled out, shaking the already depressed auto industry. In a slide since 1979, new-car sales skidded to a 21-year low of about 5.7 million units, while unemployment surged to 23% of the auto industry's 1.1 million-worker labor force. The unwillingness, and often even the actual...
...were goods really cheaper? In 1933 the average annual household income was $32 a week; in 1981 it was $497 a week. So while the latest-model Kenmore upright vacuum cleaner costs $99.95 now, compared with $17.45 then, it can be paid for with a day's work, pretax, whereas the 1933 Kenmore cost nearly three days' salary. The 1982 vacuum cleans better too. Some items even have lower price tags today. Sears does not sell a twelve-tube Superheterodyne console radio any longer, but at $52.95 it could hardly be a match for this year...
According to some Cheyenne residents, trouble had been brewing in the Jahnke household long before the $38,500-a-year IRS agent was transferred from Phoenix in August 1980. The family virtually isolated itself, and the children were expected to spend most of their free time at home. The parents forbade dating for Deborah, and Maria Jahnke insisted on accompanying her teen-age daughter on outings. Jahnke, a former career Army sergeant, a gun buff and survivalist who stored a large emergency cache of dried foodstuffs in the home, often patrolled his house fondling one of his guns. Lamented...