Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish we could get it adopted in the South,"says Edward Still, a lawyer in Birmingham, Alabamawho has mounted several challenges to electoralsystems under the federal Voting Rights Act. "Ithink it would solve a lot of our problems...
...pitfalls of premature success, Soviet emigre Semyon Bychkov, 37, started out in Grand Rapids and then went to Buffalo before taking charge this year of the Orchestre de Paris. Similarly, Britain's Simon Rattle, 34, a leader of great promise, has obdurately remained with his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in England, taking his career at his own pace...
...Sept. 7. They concentrated on the densely populated East End and the Thames docks -- killing some 300 civilians and seriously injuring 1,300 -- and when it ended Goring telephoned his wife to say "London is in flames." Nor was London the only target. The Luftwaffe subsequently pounded Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Bristol...
...prior two novels: the imaginary campus of Rummidge University in England. But unlike the two earlier works, which ranged over the entire globe, Nice Work confines itself almost entirely to the city of Rummidge, which, as the author explains, "occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world...
...Zapp's walk-on particularly illustrates, Lodge has more verve in academic settings than in his conscientiously worked-up factory scenes, and naturally so. He taught literature at the University of Birmingham from 1960 to 1987, and still holds an honorary chair there. But in either sphere his writing displays the wicked eye of a born satirist. Swallow's smile exposes teeth set at odd angles, "like tombstones in a neglected churchyard." A receptionist at Vic's factory strokes her platinum-blond hairdo "as if it were an ailing pet." This is a novel that lives...