Word: split-level
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...come from, the landscape is already second-generation neon, and the politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates" on old farmland. Most of the drug-use takes place over there, as well as the horseback-riding and country...
...Some YEWESSERS dwell in apartments, where they live on either side of a flimsy medicine cabinet. All others live in white split-level houses. The males are cranky in the morning and astonished when the coffee is not bitter or the breakfast is palatable. Then they beam and demand to know the name of the product, which they repeat nine times. The wives then proceed to their day, which consists of eight hours of unmitigated jealousy and fear. The jealousy is exhibited at wash time. During this period they stare enviously at their neighbor's laundry, which is always...
...Ages, man lived in a holistic universe, with heaven above and earth below embraced in one divine economy. But the aggressive humanism of the Renaissance and the mechanistic visions of the scientific revolution shattered that unified cosmos. For more than three centuries, Western civilization has lived instead in a split-level universe conceived by the French philosopher René Descartes. A religious man, but also a rationalist, Descartes contended that man could demonstrate truth only about a world he could measure. The world of spirit was beyond such measurement, a matter of faith and intuition, not truth. Descartes became...
Vidal believes (and who can argue?) that there is nothing more effective for a writer than having something intense to say. He is never at a loss, especially when scoring satirical bull's-eyes at three feet, as in his hilarious overkill of Dr. Reuben's split-level moralizing about sex. At his best, Vidal can turn an epigram with the wittiest of the 19th century. "The worst that can be said of pornography," he writes, "is that it leads not to 'antisocial' sexual acts but to the reading of more pornography...
Roofing Contractor John Conforti had just finished dinner when the bell rang at his $65,000 split-level home in Massapequa, L.I. There on the porch stood two agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs with a warrant to search for $4,000,000 in profits from the sale of heroin. Would he surrender the money? Conforti said he didn't know anything about it. The two then summoned some 20 more agents waiting near by, armed with sledgehammers, crowbars and other wrecking equipment...