Word: marinates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
...quietly, less flamboyantly. Instead of protesting, the University of California's 125,000 students employ a lobbyist (at $84,000 a year) to battle the legislature. Nearly a dozen "open universities" in the Bay Area alone provide a less structured, tutorial approach to learning. The ruddy affluent of Marin County have made holistic medical clinics into community centers that sometimes offer their clients life-style-evaluation group sessions...
...place in bleached and bare California has been harder hit by the two-year drought than Marin County. Strict rationing has been imposed, with water priced as high as $50 per 100 cu. ft. for those who exceed their allotments. The first bills under the new plan arrived last week, and some of them made a splash...
Cristo said his most recent project, the 24-mile "Running Fence" constructed in San Marin County, Calif., involved a primitive, collective attitude consistent with his Marxist philosophy. The money raised to finance the project was collected from the sale of his own paintings, drawings, and other pieces of art, he said...
...slightly too-intense light, which reveals the dinginess of a tenement corridor, Didion effectively uses these chorus-like chants and staccato phrases to amplify the thoughts Charlotte is trying to block. They are echoes of the past that climb up into the present. In much the same way that Marin uses revolutionary rhetoric a deny her past, Charlotte uses a process of selective remembering: it is unsurprising then that when that past encroaches on the present it crumbles both women...