Word: split-level
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...past, present or future, thus abolishing the traditional dramatic unities of time and space. But officials of the Cologne Opera, which had commissioned the piece, convinced Zimmermann that his idea was unperformable, so he scaled it down to the proportions of a conventional opera house-though he retained a split-level stage and the use of film...
...with heating oil costs that ran to $1,000 a season even in relatively temperate Virginia, Betsy and Bob Smith of Richmond last fall invested $220 in a portable kerosene heater. From the day they turned it on in their split-level home, their average oil consumption for central heating began plunging, down to 77 gal., vs. 180 to 200 normally. Says Betsy: "It's working like a dream. It has half paid for itself already...
...subject's clothes, schooling, job, neighborhood and car. The days when everybody enjoyed the habit of looking at all the artifacts of civilized existence as though they were primarily badges of rank. The days when elitist Middle Americans casually sneered at fellow citizens who lived in suburban split-level houses-which only a Rockefeller could afford today. Inflation is just one of the things that undermined the great status chase. The prior years of sustained prosperity contributed to the same end-giving people of middling status possession of most of the fashions and products (luxury gadgetry, stereos, color...
...passion and a humanizing sense of humor. Edna Mae is just as surprised and troubled by her healing gift as her neighbors are; and Burstyn helps the moviegoer share in this discovery. She may not walk on water, but she still performs a miracle of sorts: turning this ambitious, split-level movie into a personal triumph...
...Waits married? Settled into a nice suburban split-level? Little Toms and Tomasinas on the rug? "Sure. I'd like to have about seven of 'em." But Waits' idyllic homelife is still far off; he has yet to stumble starry-eyed upon Mrs. Right, though he's looking. "I'll take a white girl," he gleams, "about five-two with big tits and bad teeth...