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...nation's long-haul truck drivers were celebrated as the last cowboys. Sitting high and lonesome in 18-wheelers, they put the pedal to the metal, trying to outrun "Smokey" and middle-of-the-road conformity. The flip side of the image: stressful schedules and strained marriages. But now split-level suburbia is the new deal on wheels. An up-and-coming crowd of diesel outriders are bringing their homes and their wives along in fully outfitted, self-contained living quarters set behind the driver's cab. If they need a handle, call this new breed truppies, upscale truckers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Now It's Home, Home on the Road | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

Bombeck's success has spawned a split-level cottage industry. In newspapers throughout the land, local scribblers focus on the foibles of their own lives and families to win sympathetic chuckles from readers. And readers cannot seem to get enough. Most of these Bombeckians receive more mail by far than their publications' other life-style columnists, some are nationally syndicated, and a few have had their work collected in book form. None are precise Erma clones, and they wryly observe life from varieties of settings including city apartments and even Embassy Row. But wherever they call home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And on Other Home Fronts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

SING HO for the life of middle class America, burdened with enormous taxes, college tuitions, and unappreciative children. Also large, split-level homes and two-car garages. In Split Image, the Stetson family doesn't have it so easy. Despite a burglar alarm and extensive insurance, these upstanding citizens lose their son--body and soul--to a cult...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Cult-ivation | 10/15/1982 | See Source »

...trauma are now discussed openly. America is being educated; more stringent laws and penalties are now in effect and reflect a greater understanding of the crime. But feminism, in its widest application, is still a home-front revolution, and it is in the apartment, the tract house and the split-level that its greatest impact has been felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Long Till Equality? | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

From the outset Harvard's offense was in high gear. The laxmen knocked in four goals in the first quarter while keeping she men from the land of the split-level house to only one tally...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Laxwomen Lose to Penn State; Men Victorious | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

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