Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carried to establish which way up gravity is"), is reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and a new suburban Cleveland shopping mall proudly displays his Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basket-Weave Mark Two Gentleman's Flying Machine with its unique autopilot FRED (Freehand Remembering Empirical Doodling system). Starting this month, the makers of Wall-Tex wall coverings will bring Emett's wry whatsits and dotty doodads into...
Skillfully and honestly, Guest chronicles a family of ordinary people--white, middle class, Suburban--whose lives are rocked by a pair of extraordinary events that aren't supposed to happen to followers of the middle-class rule book. Here is a struggle between people trying to come to terms with emotions and occurrences they cannot control or justify, that polarize as well as irretrievably connect...
Updike subtitles the novel "a romance," an artistic sleight of hand by which he allows himself the generous introduction of coincidences. The resonances of the original romance, the Garden of Eden parable, are plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children...
...what was happening was ordered away with the explanation that "there is an operation under way." Patricia Ann Erb, who had been barely on the fringe of ERP activities three years ago as a student at the National University in Buenos Aires, finally surfaced unharmed at a suburban police station; last week she was ordered to leave the country...
Grogan knows little and cares less about the sophisticated Boston scene. He rarely ventures beyond the Patriots' headquarters in suburban Foxboro. Besides, Back Bay is hardly the style of a man whose cowboy boots were scuffed not by walking sidewalks but by trudging over furrows. As he puts it in Grogan plain-style: "We don't have anything like Boston in Kansas...