Word: suburban
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...title indicates, this latest volume in the trilogy about the author Nathan Zuckerman--who no doubt is modeled somewhat after Roth--is a story about opposing lives. First there is the opposition between Nathan and his brother Henry, a successful suburban dentist in South Orange, New Jersey. Then there is the counterlife that Henry decides to live in Israel and the counterlife that Nathan decides to live in England. The interaction between these various worlds and people provides the canvas on which Roth paints his vision of his Jewishness...
...circumstances were chillingly similar. Last Aug. 31 a small private plane took off from a suburban Los Angeles airfield, flew into the restricted airspace that protects Los Angeles International Airport without informing controllers, and collided with an Aeromexico jetliner. Eighty-two people died. Last week a single-engine Mooney aircraft lifted off from a municipal airfield 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, intruded without warning into the restricted zone around the city's international airport, and struck a SkyWest commuter airliner. All ten people in the two planes were killed...
...children by a previous marriage. When his first attempts at short stories were routinely rejected, Roth gave up his literary aspirations and buckled down to his academic career. He earned his doctorate and went on to teaching positions at the University of Iowa and Princeton. The Roths live in suburban Philadelphia, where he is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His critical books include The Jewish American Novel: Is Enough Enough? and Franz Kafka: The Sit-Down Comic...
...Enrile and Ramos staged their revolt in Manila, Cory, 350 miles away in Cebu, at first lay low in a Carmelite monastery. But as the revolution continued, she hurried back to Manila, ready to take charge. While her advisers collapsed in exhaustion around her suburban bungalow and a gunfight continued less than a block away, the President-elect serenely announced that she planned to take a shower and get changed. Then she had herself driven to her inauguration in her white Chevrolet van, stopping at every red light...
...daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian Century, the liberal Protestant...