Word: laundromat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be more wackily multifocal than The Tents of Wickedness, a story told through a sequence of parodies of other writers, among them Marquand, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Proust, Joyce and Kafka. The reader may come to feel that he has been washed, rinsed and spun dry in a literary Laundromat...
...Laundromat. The jobs, dreams and struggle of the new middle class are typically on display in Guadalajara (pop. 560,000), the once sleepy colonial capital of Jalisco state. In humming factories on the grassy hills around the city, men, women and machines make textiles, copper tubing, shoes, mattresses, Nescafe, paper bags, fertilizer, matches, glass, plumbing supplies, corn sirup, and the oils of cottonseed, peanuts and sesame. In the city are the concrete skeleton of a high new medical center, a sprawling new market, the circular sweep of a new sports arena, the glassy modern blankness of expensive new houses...
...tequila chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases in toothpaste, carrots and dehydrated pimento soup - and then they stop by the Laundromat to pick up the washing...
Agencies in the first three categories are members of H.S.A. Agencies in the fourth group have the option to join the corporation or not. Several agencies are operating outside of H.S.A. such as: the House Newsstands, University Credit Club, Matchabelli, Harvard Laundromat, Cafe Mozart, and two Student Laundry operations...
...Actress de Banzie and a hard-drinking, hard-bargaining Estelle Winwood-who is blackmailing her-are speaking of murder that Speaking of Murder comes most happily to life. With her high-styled eeriness, her split-second vagueness, Actress Winwood could impose a sense of drawing-room comedy on a Laundromat, and does it all the better in a library. Though not a thriller, Speaking of Murder, as Broadway's only example of the type, should provide relief to those who crave a thriller until an actual thriller comes along...