Word: porch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fights, the world is "black and white with the sound turned low," and what he sees is what we get. Dark clouds hurtle across the sky; diagonal strips of shadow fall like knife scars on every face; steam rises from the streets and rolls off the most innocuous front porch. Clocks, with or without hands, are everywhere, reminding the Motorcycle Boy of his mortality; and the sound track has the ominous rhythm of a heartbeat, a time bomb...
...galloped his steed up the front steps onto the porch (of a house which Miss Ayer was visiting at the time), jumped off, bowed deeply with a sweep of his hat, and at Beatrice's feet asked her hand in marriage...
...American refugee resettlement organization, Lien and her brothers were brought to the United States a year and a half ago. Now ages 18, 19, and 25, they live under church sponsorship in a small clapboard house in a New England sea town. There are bicycles on the porch, a struggling tomato plant in the yard, bright white T-shirts on the clothesline, and a fully stocked refrigerator in the kitchen. During the summer months they bicycle everyday past candy and clothing stores to their coffee shop jobs. During the rest of the year the boys attend the local high school...
...snobbery. Buckley is an expansive character who is almost indiscriminately democratic in the range of his friends and interests. He glows with intimidating self-assurance. The true snob sometimes has an air of pugnacious, overbearing self-satisfaction, but it is usually mere front. The snob is frequently a grand porch with no mansion attached, a Potemkin affair. The essence of snobbery is not real self-assurance but its opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep up and reclaim the soul and drag it back down into its native squalor, back...
...Sometimes I feel I am a cannibal galaxy unto myself," says Cynthia Ozick, in a sweet, girlish voice. She is sipping tea on the back porch of the rambling, old-fashioned house in New Rochelle, N.Y., she shares with her husband, Attorney Bernard Hallote, and her teen-age daughter Rachel. Ozick was up most of the previous night writing, engaged in what she describes as "the fight between self and self." She explains: "Ancestrally, I stem from the Mitnagged [literally opponent] tradition, which is superrational and superskeptical. That's the part of me that writes the essays...