Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Welcome to Redbud, Andy and Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith). He hopes to write that big novel; she's looking for peace and quiet. Instead they find a snake in their living room, a corpse in the garden and a mailman who thinks he's Mad Max in a pickup truck. The deepest injury is to Andy's authorial ego, when his book turns out stinky and she writes next year's best seller. In Smith's bruised glare you can see the befuddled pain of anyone married to a blockhead with writer's block. But that's just subplot. The main...
...pressured into the army and then into an unsuitable, short-lived marriage. Since then, he has carefully constructed a hermetic existence designed to protect himself from all surprises. His plan works, until the morning he discovers a pigeon staring at him in the hallway outside his attic room. The protagonist of German Author Patrick Suskind's second novel seems as commonplace as the monstrous main character of his first, the international best seller Perfume (1986), was bizarre. Such appearances are deceiving. The Pigeon is a small, unassuming paradigm of psychological terror and comedy. With remarkable grace and compression, Suskind displays...
...public land are open to use by the increasingly popular off-road vehicles. The Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area east of San Diego, for example, draws tens of thousands of visitors. Environmentalists are enraged. Says Bob Hattoy, Southern California director of the Sierra Club: "They have ample room to play, but they feel they have the cowboy's right to ride the range wherever they want, whenever they want and how far they want...
...Neill recalls that at her first board meeting of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce the men in the room stood up when she entered, unaccustomed to having a woman join them. "I think they were more uncomfortable than I was," O'Neill says...
...1970s it was not as extraordinary as it would have been earlier" to be a woman in a meeting, Shore says. "Obviously we were never 50 percent, but rarely did I go someplace where there weren't any women in the room...