Word: windows
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...haunts her. Oates' twelfth novel informs the occult with Freudian insights. Boys change into hounds, men into bears; a man, swallowed by a great flood, returns decades later to be recognized only by his 100-year-old wife. One of the Bellefleurs has a habit of leaving her window open so that her lover, a vampire, can fly in. Dwarfs bowl in the valleys, rivers change course, mountains shrink, and a man walks through a mirror so that, like Orpheus, he can enter the netherworld and find his own version of Eurydice...
...slums, as Spiro Agnew did not know. Every impoverished area of New York is a few notches better off than Charlotte Street, but that fact gives no consolation to those who live in sagging wooden tenements or in squat red apartment houses with laundry strung like paper necklaces from window to window. In the summers what passes for life in these areas moves out to the fire escapes or up to the roofs among the antenna forests, or out to the doorways where teen-agers and their elders mill, hang out and wait. They have not the Jordache look...
...matching process in the Freshman Dean's Office looks andsoundslike a miniature stock market floor. "I have a musician who likes to sleep with the window open," someone will call out, hoping to hear, "I have a composer who likes to sleep with the window open and eat Doritos." Slam. Those two folders get clipped together and the advisers move...
THROUGH THE CELLOPHASE shrink-wrap window encasing his latest release, all atweed to offset a glaring urban background, Jackson Browne seems to have exchanged "the bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge." Hold Out is here in part tostatethat "the poet laureate of California rock" has made that trade and is living up to his promise to "be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender," and in part to entreat Browne's long-time idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea...
...person," she explains. "I just don't like to put the wormy on the hooky." Swear to God. Even the producers must have realized the scene was getting out of hand, because seconds later a helicopter appears. "Are you Dr. Seagram?" a man asks through a bullhorn from the window of the chopper. "I've come to take you back to Washington. Government orders...