Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have ever felt "physically threatened by someone who was black," 64% of the white respondents agree that they would be afraid to be in an all-black neighborhood at night (27% would also feel afraid during the day). Despite news stories about the racial attacks on blacks in Howard Beach, Queens, N.Y., only 30% of the black respondents say they would be afraid in an all-white neighborhood at night; even fewer black respondents (24%) say they have ever felt physically threatened by a white...
Some of the longest, most tortured consumer stories involve home delivery. When Tony and Sandra Cantafio of Redondo Beach, Calif., bought a bed last October, they had to wait four weeks for it to arrive because of lost paperwork and other snafus. The result for Cantafio was an aching back from sleeping on the sofa. But there was another pain: to get the bed finally, Cantafio had to take an entire day off from his job as an aerospace executive because the deliverymen refused to predict what time they would arrive at his home...
...downtown Chapstick and Sunglasses. The city was about 50 miles square. On one side of the highway were tubes of chapstick as far as the eye could see. In some places, the tubes were piled high; in others, they nestled in small private communities. Blistex had its own private beach club...
Marilyn: Norma Jeane does not, however, make the mistake of being merely a feminist interpretation of Monroe's life. Barris' photographs show us a playful woman who loved to drink champagne and run on the beach. The chapter titled "Fathers and Lovers" is a gossipy look at her love life, "The Woman Who Will Not Die" attempts to decipher the enduring mania for Marilyn, and "Who Would She Be Now?" offers a speculative look at what Monroe would be like if she were alive today...
...leftist, Jewish melodrama, something that Chekhov would have written if he had grown up in the Bronx and been named Blumberg. It treads on ground that we seen many times before: the Berger apartment on the Grand Concourse looks just like Neil Simon's place in Brighton Beach, Woody Allen's old home under the roller coaster at Coney Island, and even Alexander Portnoy's house of horrors in Newark. But this is not nostalgia; the fuzzy sentimentalism of memory is replaced here with a genuine anger, and even a trace of contempt...