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...sense, the open-plan design of today recalls a time three centuries ago when a house consisted of one room centered on a fireplace for cooking and warmth. Then prosperity and technology combined to change things over the years. Central heating decentralized living, making separate bedrooms for individual family members more feasible. In the postwar housing boom, the classic three-bedroom ranch gave each component of the nuclear family a room (but what moron decided that one bathroom would suffice?). By the early '70s everyone was going his own way. Who needed a formal dining room when no one wanted...
...Seaweed takes Penny and Tracy to meet his mom, Motormouth Maybelle (Mary Bond Davis), who hosts the once-a-month Negro Day on Corky's show and runs a record store on the dark side of town. The two nice white chicks love the cluttered store's music, its warmth and perceived danger. (Tracy: "This is so Afro-tastic!") In two shakes, Link shows up, and Edna and Wilbur. The place is crawling with Caucasians! A black girl mutters, "If we get any more white people in here, it'll be a suburb...
...flavor-of-the-moment in Thai travel and lifestyle magazines and is being hailed as the "Ubud of Thailand" in similar travel publications overseas. So far, Pai is retaining its charm. The 3,000 local inhabitants still display the unconditional warmth and friendliness toward strangers that were once the hallmark of Thai hospitality everywhere. Motorbikes have replaced elephants as the primary mode of transport, but the panniers hanging from the backs of those Honda Dreams are still made of woven bamboo. And as you stroll through the outskirts of town in the late afternoon, the only sounds you hear besides...
Hanson said he and Rosenberger have worked over the past nine years to instill a “tradition of informality, warmth, lack of pretension and inclusivity...
...Author Kressmann Taylor tells the story solely through their letters, which saves a lot of space on plot, dialogue and description. Yet the letters carry considerable freight. "Back in Germany! How I envy you," enthuses Max Eisenstein to his old friend Martin Schulse in the opening missive. The warmth of the relationship is palpable as they recount their happy hours together, the minutiae of their business dealings and their increasingly divergent lives. "I am in distress at the press reports that come pouring in to us from the Fatherland," writes a worried Eisenstein from San Francisco a few letters later...