Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with everyday details, although such information does not shed much new light on his fiction, which was luminous enough to begin with. To learn more about Cheever is to take a refresher course in the pleasure of his company. He could toss off a letter that made even a motel remarkable: "The furniture was of no discernible period or inspiration and I think if you studied the dressing- table long enough you might go insane." Cheever's correspondence, as selected, edited and annotated by his son Benjamin, amounts to an entirely new story -- long, engrossing and recounted with characteristic grace...
...plot is explained in what has to be the clumsiest exposition ever. After escaping from one town and holing up in a motel, Harry reads the newspaper article about the Popes' disappearance to Danny, as if the two of them had forgotten their own lives. Running on Empty is that kind of movie. People turn on the TV or the radio just in time to catch exactly that news report which pertains to them...
Cambridge was to have let Harvard tear down the building in return for the University's promise to build a new, indoor parking garage that would have brought the city more revenue than the old spaces did. But Duehay, who opposes tearing down the motel at all, stalled the deal. He said last week that Cambridge should not give up a property right to Harvard without knowing what it was worth...
...England version of Garrison Keillor's fictional Lake Wobegon. These days, however, Jefferson's calm has been shattered by a real-life nightmare that might have been concocted by Horror Novelist Stephen King. Since May, 19 fires have destroyed or damaged seven homes and a motel, injuring three residents. Authorities believe the fires were set by a local arsonist...
...this for a wet dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts insect legs when trapped in Freddy's Roach Motel: "You can check in, but you can't check...