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...AMERICAN BUFFALO by DAVID MAMET...
...trio spends most of American Buffalo planning to burglarize the apartment of a coin collector who has recently appeared in the shop. But the men are gradually undone by their own inertia, mistrust and ineptitude. The job never conies off. At the end they draw together in a fragile bond of shared futility, human castoffs alongside the inanimate ones...
While the town of Northampton imported snow from Buffalo for its winter carnival, Smith College imported squash teams. The result was that the Radcliffe squashers played four matches in two days and came out with a 3-1 record...
...eleven days the Welches were as isolated as if they had been marooned in Antarctica. The blizzard that swept over their home 35 miles south of Buffalo left drifts that were 15 ft. high. When five-year-old Craig ran a fever of 105°, getting a doctor was out of the question. Elizabeth Welch brought down her son's temperature by simply packing him in what was closest at hand: snow. Last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finally rescued the family of four by breaking through the sea of white with a roar of snowblowers...
Throughout the Buffalo area and in the cold belt that stretched taut across the Midwest, Americans were digging themselves out and counting their blessings as the Great Winter of '77 relaxed its clutch. In New York, Ohio and New Jersey, plants rumbled back into action and hundreds of thousands of men and women returned to work. Chicago temperatures rose to a comparatively balmy 45°, after shivering below freezing for 43 straight days. In their euphoria, some citizens doffed their overcoats and earmuffs, as though spring were just around the corner...