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...Those early columns, written in Centerville, Ohio, back in the early '60s, were not quite Corinthian, but they sure were Ermaic. Their message was that housework, if it is done right, can kill you. It was that the women who kept house in the happy hunting ground called suburbia were so lonely that they held meaningful conversations with their tropical fish. It was that "you become about as exciting as your food blender. The kids come in, look you in the eye, and ask you if anybody's home...
...used to go every weekend," Avery says. "The place had a lot of character--holes in the seats, paint falling off the ceiling, drunken bums." After sophomore year the cinema was renovated, and split into three screens, two for first runs. "Suburbia," he scoffs...
...that might tax the average adult imagination. Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing...
...Suburbia piles into the latest hot ticket from Detroit Visitors to the annual auto show at New York City's Coliseum last week gazed with longing at expensive sports cars and custom-stretched limousines. But a real hit of the extravaganza was the new minivans that are now rushing onto American highways. At the Chrysler display, people bounced up and down in the driver's seat and clambered around the interior. Said Edward Thomas from Matawan, N.J., a prospective purchaser: "It's a very practical vehicle and more fashionable than a regular-size van." Car buyers around...
...buyers is now dis covering vans. Most are former owners of sedans or station wagons, and only 3% previously had vans. Says Maryann Kel ler, a portfolio manager and auto-industry analyst with Vilas-Fischer Associates in New York City: "This is a whole new concept to foist on suburbia...