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...collected rain and dew off the roof of the building to drink and bathed every other day in water from a little stream close to the camp. Clumpy, grey porridge was the standard for breakfast, which we quickly learned to dread. In the morning we attended lectures in the bush, while the afternoons were free for personal research...
...famous talents under the same roof manage the egos, the stresses? She replies with a laugh, "A lot of our sentences begin, 'I completely understand that you, too, are having a rotten time, but . . . ' We read each ; other's things. We talk about them." A London critic comments that "living with Pinter has been a terrific influence for the better on her writing...
...have struggled to achieve. Barbara is willing to forgo alimony if she can keep it. Oliver is ready to pay her almost anything if he can have it. His lawyer (nicely played by DeVito) discovers an obscure statute under which they can divorce yet continue to live under the roof on which they have lavished their truest love...
...Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today's franchised glitz. Says Arthur Krim of the Society for Commercial Archeology, which studies America's commercial...
Still, a hulking hot-dog stand is often a lesser evil than what some developers want to put in its place. When a new mini-mall threatened to replace the Minuteman Carwash in Los Angeles, a 1960 building sporting a boomerang-shape decoration on its roof, neighborhood residents petitioned the Cultural Heritage Commission of Los Angeles to declare it a landmark. The ploy failed, but the case attracted the attention of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the largest preservation organization in the U.S. Says trust spokeswoman Courtney Damkroger: "If something like this gas station is designated a landmark locally...