Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pristine glass there is that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons, pastures...
...didn't matter. Billy was in his element, reveling in himself, his nouveau wealth, his friends-good ole boys and all -and the members of his family about whom he still cares. Actually Billy cares about a lot of people and things, but he chooses, for reasons Freud could explain even if Billy could not, to express his caring through outrageous behavior and flamboyantly bad taste. Jana's wedding was more than simply a wedding: it was Billy's great work of art, his moment of total self-expression...
...opened Canada's annual Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, last week-but not power for its own sake. The central figures in both works, one by George Bernard Shaw and the other by Henrik Ibsen, are secular Salvationists who dream of bettering mankind's lot. One thrives; the other is doomed...
...criminal," says Maltby, "but a lot of Waller's music is simply gone. The music publishers don't have it, and nobody knows if it exists anywhere." To assemble their show, Maltby and Horwitz unearthed 75 songs...
Boston's Neptune Lobster shop, located near the moored U.S.S. Constitution, sends a fishmonger to walk alongside the busloads of foreign tourists, displaying a 15-lb. monster lobster. The Germans are by far the most susceptible. Says Dietmar Kruesel, a member of the West German consulate: "A lot of them carry frozen lobsters home in their luggage...