Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Here's a secret," she confides at the beginning of Memory of Us, assuming -probably incorrectly-that anyone wants to hear. It seems that she is happiest in a tacky little room she rents in the Starlite Motel, where she can practice photography, be by herself a few hours a day to "work things out," or just "drift." All of us, sad to say, drift with her, back to the early days of her marriage, when she would thread a string from the bedroom to the front door of their little apartment and affix a note for Brad: "Roses...
...Brad (Jon Cypher) tracks Betty to her motel room and concludes that she is either having an affair or a breakdown. Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...Harvard made an offer, I never knew about it until after the vote," Wheeler, who voted for the proposal, maintains. "At the time it seemed like a logical proposal. The Square needed a motel and I didn't think it was all that...
...shield might just as well belong to Ganienkeh, a group trying to "Help Eagle Bay." They are a group of "native Americans, Mohawk primarily," who have taken over a former girls camp in New York and kicked all the motel owners out. "They have the right to this land. They will appeal to the United Nations and the International Coort |sic| if necessary." In their pamphlet they fall to elucidate their stand on busing...
...Crimson interview, Daly left his office with senator-elect Culver, whom he was taking to watch football practice. Daly, a Yale graduate, suggested that he has always found The Game boring, and that those not connected with Harvard or Yale "would be better off finding a girl and a motel room and watching Ohio State on television...