Word: split-level
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...last time I picked up a hammer was in seventh-grade workshop. I invented split-level knock hockey because I couldn't get my plywood to stay even. If my shop teacher hadn't sent me to the library to avoid any major accidents, I might never have ended up an English major at Harvard...
...nothing the least bit bizarre about this cheerful 42-year-old librarian who lives with her husband Dan, a fluffy white cat named Boom Boom and a cocker spaniel named Special on a tree-lined street in Aberdeen, S. Dak. What a visitor notices above all in their cozy, split-level house is the photographs of smiling kids: grandchildren, nieces and nephews and, over the living-room sofa, two large color portraits of the Schweitzers' son Curtis, 26, and daughter Christa...
Adam Prince is credited with writing, directing, producing, set and sound designing and publicizing Family Secrets. In some of these roles, Prince seems extremely capable. The publicity is nice. The sound is clear, and the play features a well-chosen soundtrack of old jazz standards. The detailed split-level set--red floral couch, liquor bottles, a shelf of old board games--turns the Mather TV room into a good simulation of an old woman's living room and attic in Westchester County...
...into northwest Greensboro's nicer houses, the area remains overwhelmingly white. Beyond the downtown underpass, which traditionally marked the other side of the tracks, southeast Greensboro remains almost all black. Several years ago, Ron and Betty Crutcher, who are black and lived in a mostly white neighborhood, put their split-level house on the market to seek a less traffic-filled neighborhood for their young daughter. The real-estate agent suggested the Crutchers hide their family pictures, implying that white buyers would be less likely to purchase a house that had been occupied by blacks. They decided not to remove...
Within two months the Cutlips had sold their house and moved with their four children to Seattle, with no job and few friends, but with a determination to find a less stressful life. Today the family is settled in the wooded suburb of Issaquah in a cedar split-level that cost them $110,000 less than their California home. Even if Kelly's income has dipped 20%, his commute is mercifully brief. At the wheel, he says, he no longer starts at the sound of a backfire for fear it might be a highway shooting. "We were tired of being...