Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite good but thoroughly conventional novel that reads, in fact, like the old-pro product of an intelligent, thoroughly practiced veteran. Ms. Guest's hardly unorthodox subject is a middle-class American family from the Middle West. Make that upper-middle-class: the Jarretts live in Lake Forest, Ill., and father happens to be a tax lawyer. Mother runs a spick-and-span home (she is death on water spots in the shower) and plays golf and bridge on the side. Conrad, 17, is the sort of bright boy who ends up on the swimming team: clean...
...garrulous old Jewish men, played with great sensitivity by Mike Kellin and Michael Egan, sit on a bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...
...during his Bicentennial bang is another "fat man," a two-ton monster mortar that Plimpton hoped would put him in the Guinness Book of World Records. When tested this winter, it blew up on the ground. "A very discouraging business," recalls Plimpton. "And it created an enormous man-made lake...
...really construction at all. Instead of tearing down sturdy old structures (what would Rome be if that had been the Italian approach?), builders are renovating them and turning them to new uses. The process-alas, called "recycling" in current jargon-has caught on across the U.S. In Salt Lake City trolley-car barns now house an entertainment center; a Cleveland power plant has become a theater; what was once a torpedo factory in Alexandria, Va., is an arts center...
...with directions to the battle sites, brief accounts of what happened there two centuries ago with what each place looks like today. In greenest Vermont. Stember will, for example, send the tourist past a white farmhouse down a rutted dirt road and bring him to a desolate cove on Lake Champlain that has changed little since. Benedict Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall of 1776. In Manhattan, Stember can startle a reader with the intelligence that a field where Washington's raggedy men knelt to fire...