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...suburb has long had a powerful hold on the American imagination. In the national mythology it is a place of status and security: it is the persistent dream of a green and pleasant oasis not too far from the office, a plot of ground that offers the calm of the country with all the advantages of the city within easy reach. The dream ranges from the manicured privacy of Long Island's "Gold Coast" to the die-stamped uniformity of California's Daly City, which inspired Malvina Reynolds' derisive song Little Boxes. Between those extremes hovers...
...possible to avoid the draft. Some plan to apply for conscientious objector status. But the chances are that most will answer the call when it comes The Army offers doctors captains' commissions at salaries of nearly $1,000 a month. Those who decline the offer face a less pleasant alternative. They can be inducted anyway, sent through basic training, and then be assigned medical duties as privates for $175 a month...
...Harvard Square resident, a fairly recent grad, and not quite an establishmentarian yet. Howeveh, I was a little put off at your treatment of my ex-landlord Richard Dow. "Tony" is not any rad-lib, even though his son is a genuine freak, but he is a pleasant curmudgeon. During the time we rented from him over the Billings and Stover store, we thought that he'd go mad with us hairy freaks running all over the building. But he remained as pleasant as he could, and when a broken pipe in the wall doused our office, he gave...
...turned to his wife to say "I'm glad we got here early ... It's half the fun." Groove Tube is at least as much fun as playing with balloons. Its 72-minute repertoire of video-taped comedy sketches, visual one-liners, and TV parodies is, with some exceptions, pleasant, if light-weight, entertainment...
Fortunately, a few of Groove Tube's commercials go beyond this kind of pleasant but pointlessly low humor, to probe deeper into the diseased minds of Madison Avenue with careful, closely-drawn parodies that are scarcely distinguishable from the originals. The new-car ad, for instance, uses a standard, wide-angle shot-sequence of a chromium monster gleaming in the middle of a desert, a sequence taped from an actual commercial. The dubbed-over pitch makes the claims about the car that, in an ever-tightening ring of circumlocution, the promoters of Fords, Chevrolets and Pontiacs have been working towards...