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...This cool spring afternoon, the salvation site is suburban. One hundred yards from the Merritt Parkway, 1½ rush hours from Manhattan, the frame of a born-again Babcock barn climbs skyward in Fairfield, Conn. After eight years in their 200-year-old farmhouse, Advertising Executive Rick Baker and his wife Cathy called on Babcock to erect a colonial barn addition, which will hold a new living room and a cluster of bedrooms. They wanted more space, but they also wanted to respect the region's history...
...Harlem spontaneously threw up her arms and shouted to the assembly, "You have changed my life!" In yet another, a raven-haired Bolivian in a felt bowler talked excitedly to a veiled woman from the Western Sahara. Each day at noon, Betty Friedan conducted an informal seminar in the cool shade of a fig tree. And nearby, a dozen black-robed Iranian women assembled on the green to argue the merits of Islamic fundamentalism. Gesturing toward a group of bare-faced Westerners, the Iranians' male guardian commented, "They think these women are bodies without souls...
...looked like Dustin Hoffman, for some reason." Similarly, Martin reports on natural scenery most confidently when he can compare it to name-brand products. Walking along the beach, he notes that "the Gulf shined like mylar." Out for a drive, he remarks, "The clouds were like spills of dark Cool Whip going in slow motion across the sky." In fact, the real world impresses Martin most when it seems artificial. Seeing Dominica standing at night beside the motel's illuminated swimming pool, he observes, "It was as if we were on the set of some strange movie, caught...
Most of these series stand no more chance than a June bug of being around when the weather turns cool. A few, however, are making serious tryouts for the regular season schedule. Next month CBS will unveil West 57th, a new magazine show that could return in midseason if it does well. Also set for August is CBS's Hometown, an hour comedy-drama about a group of college friends from the '60s who reunite for some soul searching in the '80s. The resemblance to The Big Chill is impossible to miss: characters reminisce about antiwar rallies and ponder...
Compensation: Under threat of public foreclosure, make all the Final Clubs change their animal names into plant names. Or protozoa, but nothing as cool as archaebacteria. And force the Oak to rename itself the Blue-Footed Booby. Humiliation is the only thing that works on these kids...