Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nigel is something of an 18th century Tory, inclined by age and temperament to search in the world's youngest power for the country houses and formal gardens of the Old World. Adam, born into a world whose capital is more Los Angeles than London, is delighted to give himself up to the nation's peculiar enthusiasms, using culture shock as shock therapy. Nigel longs for history; Adam rejoices in its abolition. One typical day, Nigel inquires, "Why do I have to come to Kentucky to experience exactly the sensation of travelling through rural Hampshire in 1810?" Later he goes...
...fondly Dewitt remembers that one summer when he threw his gear on the back of his Harley chopper and took off across the country in search of "it." What "it" was Dewitt did not know, but it seemed to be cropping up everywhere. Some people were "with it." Others were hopelessly "out of it." Young people everywhere were "doing it," while those adroit with their hands were apparently "making it." For a full year, Dewitt drove, searching for this priceless commodity, pausing only to read a passage from Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance (no help for a busted...
...case, Dewitt felt well-rested after the film and resumed his quest. After pedalling furiously for a few minutes, however, nature began to make its oldest demand on Dewitt, and he pulled over to search for a sanitary rest room. He found one in a theater, and old instincts remaining powerful, he sat down to watch Raising Arizona (Nickelodeon, Harvard Square). Dewitt had intended to visit that fine state on his search, but this film gave him cause to reconsider. Raising Arizona is the story of an incredibly stupid hoodlum (Nicholas Cage), who steals an infant from a local business...
...with the sounds of Steppenwolf blaring through his Walkman, Dewitt remounted his self-powered "hawg" in search of the city limits. Unfortunately, Dewitt's depth perception was not as good as it had been and he ended up running into a treacherous fire hydrant and crashing through a plate glass window. The window belonged to a movie theater and, in order to avoid paying reparations, Dewitt quickly mingled among a crowd of film seekers, attentively viewing The Color Of Money (Beacon Hill). Dewitt had seen this movie before and at second look decided he didn't like it. The Color...
...mode of transportation wrecked, Dewitt unhappily bought a subway token and headed home. Was money really the only thing in life, he pondered. What had ever happened to hippie idealism, to the search for truth and beauty through illicit chemicals? Yet in trying to reconcile these opposites, Dewitt had hit upon the solution. It's all in my head, Dewitt thought. The whole banana, from the Peace Decade to the Me Decade, is contained within my own existence. I am the Walt Whitman of my times, of all times. After years of fruitless searching, Dewitt had ended his quest...