Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next Herculean labor I had to face was Reservation Hell: 4,500 students were on the town that night, and they had taken all my favorite tables. I was at the point of calling in an order to Bartley's when my date got us a spot at a Japanese restaurant in the Back Bay. After the meal of eel and sumo-sized Chicken McNuggets, it was a mad cab ride back to the Square...
...building would be replaced by relatively inexpensive town houses for junior faculty, said Kathy Spiegelman, who has represented Harvard's planning council and its Office of Community Affairs in discussions of the proposal...
...stories and lively characters. The Prince of Tides provides plenty of both. There is the time Grandma tried out a coffin at the local funeral home and nearly frightened Ruby Blankenship to death. There is Grandpa, who can water-ski 40 miles and carries a 90-lb. cross through town every Good Friday. Conroy can be shameless in his extravagances of language and plot, yet he consistently conveys two fundamental emotions: the attachment to place and the passion for blood ties...
...Wingos are players in a ramshackle tragicomedy supported by a dubious narrative device. After Savannah tries to kill herself in Manhattan, Tom comes to town and spends the summer talking to his sister's psychiatrist, the beautiful and unhappily married Dr. Susan Lowenstein. He is a charming Southern storyteller who fills his 45-min. hours with lyric and grotesque tales of his low-country family life. He also plays the defensive redneck to Lowenstein's assured Jewish intellectual, a match-up that begins as a clash of stereotypes and ends as beautiful chemistry. But it is never clear...
Conroy is also effective when exploring the injuries of class. Small- town South Carolina is a hothouse of humiliations for a family like the Wingos. Lila's bids for membership in the Colleton League are repeatedly turned down; the boys are teased about their unfashionable clothes. All but Henry, jailed for smuggling dope on his boat, have their vindications. Lila divorces Henry and marries the town's richest citizen; Luke and Tom become high school football heroes, and Savannah writes The Shrimper's Daughter, becomes famous and moves north to live in Greenwich Village as a lesbian...