Word: spotlessness
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...some entertainment into Levin's one-gimmick book, but they are somewhat at cross-purposes. Goldman sees an opportunity to satirize middle-class mores. He scores some good points by having his living dolls talk exactly like the female humanoids in TV commercials-fretting about the need for spotless floors and coffee that tastes fresh-perked. Forbes, on the other hand, sees an opportunity for serious suspense. Will Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss, newcomers to Stepford, realize what is afoot in this too, too peaceful Connecticut town and get out before they are traded hi for living dolls...
...details amassed are awesome. The reader will learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that...
...first loss in ten games for O'Malley, who had a spotless 7-0 record last season and was cruising along with a 2-0 slate this year...
...SCRAP of newspaper blows among the litter of the railroad tracks. A group of people wait on Platform 5 of Baltimore's Penn Station for the 9:45 a.m. train to New York. A middle-aged man dressed in a spotless grey-flannel suit waits nervously with his wife. Her face is heavily powdered and her hair is piled high on her head. Close to the track a wrinkled-looking man in a creased sear-sucker sports coat checks his watch and begins to pace in a narrow circle. His sparse white mustache stands out on his lined black face...
...from the Peach State to the Sunshine State to Chestnut Hill to the Big Apple and Philly (where a doubleheader with Penn was rained out) and out to Medford Monday, Loyal Parks's club has earned 11 wins while dropping only three contests. The record up North is a spotless 3-0 mark with wins over Boston College, Columbia, and Tufts...