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...long. It is the summer of 1928 and twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding wakes up in his cupola bedroom, high above his grandparents' house in "Green Town," the author's own Waukegan, Ill. The boy knows his duty: to wake the town. Silently, he commands, " 'Everyone yawn. Everyone up.' The great house stirred below. 'Grandpa, get your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People...
...return passage, which our country will soon face-the return of breathing and consciousness, the transition from silence to free speech-will also prove a difficult and slow process, and just as painful because of the gulf of utter incomprehension that will suddenly yawn between fellow countrymen, even those of the same generation and same place of origin, even members of the same close circle...
...reactions to the films are likely to occupy opposite ends of the emotional spectrum. After watching Humphrey Bogart lose his women at the airport, after witnessing Yves Montand's dangerous political activities in France, after watching Jack Nicholson board a freight truck for Alaska, the realist is liable to yawn, comment that it was a "good flick," and go happily to Brigham's for ice cream before returning to study...
...kitchen dressed in a robe and carrying a box of cereal. "Well," she asks in a tone polite but indifferent, "would you like some breakfast? Let's see, about all we have is..."--she peers at the cover of the cereal box--"Fruit Loops." She lets out a yawn. "Sit down and eat some Fruit Loops." And we watch as Bill, so banged up he is barely able to move, his eyes heavy with beer and exhaustion, sits down with a spoon in his hand and begins to eat his Fruit Loops...
...football game. Not only did the Flyers triumph, but the Phillies-the Phillies?-are leading the Eastern Division of the National League. Heady stuff, and emblematic of the fact that things are looking up in Philadelphia, that citadel of conservatism, the faded dowager of the East Coast, the yawn between New York City and Washington, the well-kicked butt of humor for comedians. Perhaps the cruelest cut of all came from W.C. Fields, a home-town boy, who was said to have proposed as his epitaph: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia...