Word: spaciousness
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...last novel The Good Terrorist, the female protagonist in The Fifth Child is unaware of her subjugated state. Harriet is the caretaker of the family. She is constantly pregnant, constantly trying to run the household and organize the endless stream of guests that come to stay in the spacious suburban paradise. She is sometimes "pale and strained because of morning sickness and because she had spent a week scrubbing floors and washing windows...
Regan now works out of a spacious office looking up the Potomac toward the White House from Alexandria, tending to the substantial investment portfolio he assembled during his 35-year career with Merrill Lynch, the last ten as chairman of the board. Still full of what he calls his "Irish jollity," the feisty ex-Marine is unapologetic about his disclosures. "What do you mean 'kiss and tell'? To my knowledge I've never been kissed by anybody in the Reagan Administration...
...Bochco says, "more of an optimist than a pessimist." To be sure, his own life is one argument for the possibility of having it all. Bochco, boyishly charming but prematurely gray, lives with his second wife, Actress Barbara Bosson (who co-stars in Hooperman), and two children in a spacious 14-room house in Pacific Palisades. In a town of driven workaholics, Bochco nearly always gets home for dinner with the family. "What keeps him fresh is that he's not obsessive," says Producer Milch. "He doesn't occupy the self-enclosed world of the writer. Family life is important...
...noise is justified. This book will not make anyone forget One Hundred Years of Solitude, and thank goodness for that. Instead, Garcia Marquez, 60, * offers a spacious mirror image of the novel that made him famous. This time out, surface events largely conform to the dictates of plausibility. No one ascends bodily into heaven; the famous plague of insomnia that swept through Solitude here becomes literal, recurrent ravages of cholera morbus. The bizarre and outlandish are relegated to the domain of private lives, to characters who must construct for themselves elaborate fictions to follow in order to stand the shocks...
They knew that the Quad is just as close to the Science Center as Mather and Dunster. They were aware of the Quad's most spacious and elegant living accommodations. While Riverlings are crammed into closet-sized doubles, we at the Quad enjoy space, space, and more space. Most residents have singles in newly renovated suites that include skylights, carpeting, private baths, saunas, room service from Floyd's Soho Grille, and a view of the expansive Radcliffe Quad, which is filled with content residents skipping with joy to their classes...