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...about 10 minutes, the movie trundles along just fine, recovering with a shot of the two kids waking up on a suburbian lawn they mistook for a park. The automatic morning routine of the two young women is particularly touching: Manny trying to provide Lo with some privacy by shielding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Krueger Movie 'Manny & Lo' Is Slightly Grating | 8/13/1996 | See Source »

...parenthood knows, it is not the first child but the second whose arrival skews life into a grotesque caricature of its former civility. When Bombeck was several months pregnant with Andrew, the family moved to a tract development a few miles from Dayton that she was to satirize as "Suburbian Gems." Its real name is Centerville. The Bombecks lived on Cushwa Drive ("probably named for some dentist") in a house like all the others except for one prized interior feature, a $1,500 "two-way" fireplace, and on the outside, a front door they painted red so that Mother Erma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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