Word: neatness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made Skoda down the city's cobblestone streets, one of the cars roaring behind. He finally shook off the pursuers with a neat "FBI turn" -- a screeching U across three lanes of traffic on an overpass...
...little town of Clay Center, Kans., exudes all the homeyness and warmth of a Norman Rockwell painting. Tidy, freshly painted houses cover the small knoll that rises north of the town square. The homes of the middle class cost about $20,000; those of the poor are timeworn but neat. One of the tallest buildings in town is a barnlike structure built by a woman who gives baton-twirling lessons...
...production throws in some neat effects, like Mama Reeglands barging down the aisle in search of a new son, and a demonesque loudspeaker announcer hissing the name of the heavy metal club's band, "Satanica, satanica, satanica...
...drive to Vail from Denver, the mountain town will come upon you as a surprise. You've been driving for an hour-and-a-half, the golf course on your left seems endless, when suddenly the red topped roofs and neat rows of town houses, condominiums and shops appears...
...spent my days in math class fantasizing about Wendy, imagining the two of us doing really neat things like going to a movie or sharing cotton candy at the amusement park (I was only nine, and that really was the extent of my imagination). But I never told her how I felt, for fear of rejection or a big "Blech...