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...speed limit is only 30 here," she began to explain, but was cut off by the deafening boom of a truck horn, which seemed to be located somewhere in our back seat. The fact that we could see nothing but an immense grille in our rear window persuaded my grandmother that speeding was synonymous with surviving, and she put the pedal to the metal...
...suddenly the set explodes--it actually goes "boom"--giving way to a series of increasingly nightmarish scenarios that spill across the stage as they expand into the far reaches of Prum's unconscious mind. And to be sure, the inventive psychological meanderings are a Freudian's picnic...
Forster attributes the decline in the applicant pool to the decreasing number of 18-20 year olds in the postbaby boom generation, as well as to an increased interest in other fields such as law, business, and engineering. Part of the shift in interest may be caused by a desire to avoid the high level of borrowing necessary to finance many people's medical education, he said...
...Main Street, Richard Wagner is cooking hot dogs and selling soda and cigarettes at his store, one of only two predating the boom. Wagner's great grandfather bought the small building in 1904, and the place is still prospering. "The more business, the more people are attracted and the more people, the more business. Only thing is we need some place to park. I talk about the old days--that's not so long ago (Wagner is only 44)--I knew everybody, the guy who ran the grocery store, the guy in the hardware store. I don't know anybody...
...like many Midwestern river settlements, had a tang more Southern than latitude alone could explain and a small-town coziness that is rare these days. People who liked it really liked it, and stayed. Land enough to build a house could be bought for $800, even after the local boom of the 1970s...