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...geographical leaps; their urban grievances simply accumulate like a lowering smog, until one day they call the moving van. Scott Snowden, a graduate of Berkeley's law school, could have landed a job in one of San Francisco's better law firms. But Snowden found himself growing wearier and wearier of "the constant roar in the city, the intensity and impersonality of it." With his wife, he decamped to St. Helena, a tiny town in the Napa Valley wine country. He still earns less than $15,000 a year, but he can fish for bass in the local...
Standing committees "rejuvenate" themselves each year, as Dean Ford puts it, by dropping wearier members and signing on new ones. Occasionally, a committee outlives its usefulness and the Faculty, on Ford's recommendation, votes to dissolve...
...vision of Arden and the court that the good people over to Adams House are retailing these evenings is funny, fluid, and frequently elegant. Only a malcontent, wearier of world and stage than any Jaques, could carp very long on its one major failing: sometimes one can hardly see the Forest from the treat...
...butcher's block, repackaged, relabeled-and redated. In St. Louis, a test by the city health laboratory determined that hamburger purchased at a slum store was 26.5% fat compared with 18.5% fat in similar meat bought in a good neighborhood. Even a head of lettuce is often wearier and smaller in the slums-and without the cellophane packaging common in the suburbs. Ghetto markets are usually older and dingier than stores in better areas...
...seasons back, playgoers rushed to off-Broadway theaters the way children tumble downstairs on Christmas morning, breathlessly expecting the unexpected present. But too many lemons showed up in the theatrical stocking, and audiences became wearier and warier. Production costs jumped, and off-Broadway found itself increasingly prey to the worst of Broadway's ailments, the hit-or-flop syndrome. So the off-Broadway theater is in crisis-an un-fabulous invalid. Luckily, this decline has zapped most vanity productions and self-indulgent exercises in beatnicknack-ery. The remnants, plus some earnest repertory and some irreverent topical comedy, still offer...