Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suburbia has long had a special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous...
...afraid, and more sadly, why it is resentful of those who seem to have everything but gratitude. To both young and old, we are almost invisible. The young often see us as the cop-outs-as the shorthaired, button-down junior exec or the suburban housewife in a station wagon -and many of us are. Our parents and older brothers and sisters often see us as the fellow travelers of the youthful enemy, which many...
HARLEY: I had a dog one time who used to lay on his back in the sun. Just lay there with his hind legs all spread out, you know, and his tongue hanging out of his mouth. He was laying there like that one day and a wagon ran over him. He never laid that way again. He always walked funny after that. He was a good dog, though. Sam Breedlaw give him to me. Sam's married to my sister. He's a chamberpot and pin drummer...
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her brain and can't do a thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra...
...Italians christened it "Mao's moon." The British said its recording of The East Is Red sounded somewhat like the chimes of an ice-cream wagon. Though the "moon's" batteries were running down, the message that China's 380-Ib. satellite delivered as it orbited the earth last week was clear enough. Peking's space feat would inevitably affect the course of the SALT talks between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at Vienna, and ultimately it might also set off a nuclear-arms race among a number of smaller powers. In fact, the prospects...