Word: bedrooms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meteor shower. E.T. and The Goonies find their wellsprings in the need of a young outcast for a playmate, real or imagined. Poltergeist, which Spielberg describes as being "all about the terrible things I did to my younger sisters," also emerged from a spooky encounter (ethereal figure, shivery bedroom, car that wouldn't start) that the filmmaker experienced in 1972. Each picture has allowed him to remake his own childhood, then to generalize it so it touches millions of once-again kids...
...This would teach them English, the father explained. They were familiar with Woody Woodpecker in Seoul; now they could follow the story line in their new language. He said they would be at the hotel only for a couple of days. He had rented a $750-a- month, two-bedroom apartment in Glendale because he had been told the schools in that northern suburb would be good for his sons...
...made a $20,000 down payment on a store. That has since expanded to a chain of five dry-cleaning outlets, which are managed by the Nams. "We should work harder than other Americans," he says. "Otherwise we cannot succeed." Signs of the Nams' success include an attractive four- bedroom home in the upper-middle-class city of Garden Grove and two late- model U.S.-made cars...
...climb to middle-class acceptance, the Valenzuelas have all their tickets punched, save one. They own a growing used-tire shop and two cars. They rent a tidy, three-bedroom home in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Their four children maintain B averages in public schools. They pay Social Security and income taxes and keep a clean credit rating. All the family lacks is permission to live in America...
...estate speculation is a favored enterprise of the new immigrants. More than half of New York's landlords are now foreign born. Building prices doubled and tripled in one year in parts of Flushing. Tiny shops there now rent for $1,000 a month and up; so-so one-bedroom apartments 45 minutes from Manhattan go for $600. In Brooklyn's predominantly Puerto Rican Greenpoint section, the surge of Polish immigrants has, just since 1983, helped turn undistinguished $40,000 row houses into undistinguished $150,000 row houses...