Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years and a psychic, $750,000 later (his labor, which he figures at $20 an hour), Skora had remade the mountain of junk in his own image and likeness, more or less. And he looked upon it and saw it was good. And he called it Arok. Following the custom among home robot builders, Arok is Skora spelled backward (without...
...travels are not making his master rich. Liability insurance costs $150 a day. Skora has had to let his hypnotherapy practice dwindle to two or three patients a week. Lugging a 275 lb. tin man around the country is hard work; Arok must be carefully packed in his custom-built, veneered sarcophagus with the plywood bas-relief of him on the lid. And once on the job site, things go bump in the day. Like the time on a Chicago talk show when Arok impolitely dumped a glass of water into the laps of fellow Guests Bill Bixby, John Travolta...
...many Americans, a home is not a house. It is a vehicle. The rolling residence, full or part time, may be a $330,000, 40-ft., custom-converted Greyhound bus or a third-hand '52 Flexible less than half that size and one-thirtieth as expensive. It can sport every domestic convenience or be almost as spartan as a Conestoga. But nearly all of those unwieldy looking crates on wheels are habitations, as legitimately and pridefully owned as any picket-fenced, split-level ranch. With one overriding difference: If you don't like the neighbors, the weather...
...beginning, The Country Cousin more or less follows the plot of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Like Wharton's orphaned Lily Bart, taken up by affluent friends and coached on how to navigate the perilous shoals of custom and snobbery in fashionable New York City circa 1900, Auchincloss's Amy Hunt moves in with her elderly cousin, Dolly Chadbourne, following the death of her parents. But Lily resists the eligible lawyer who importunes her, and commits suicide rather than compromise her reputation. Several decades and revolutions later, the more liberated Amy runs off with...
...Brizzolaras' odd custom began six years ago, after several years in which illness, distance and conflicting engagements kept the family members apart on Christmas Day. Brizzolara, an accountant, and his wife invited their three children to try July 4. Two years ago, Brizzolara even put on a Santa Claus suit for the grandchildren...