Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...busy executive may, in the course of a day, have to put in a call or write to city hall in San Francisco. Or, on behalf of an errant salesman, reach a bail-bond outfit in Buffalo. Or a Toledo TV station. Or the Manufactured Housing Institute. Or HEW in Atlanta, or EPA in Boston, or a bus terminal in Minneapolis...
...more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall. In Buffalo, State Senator James Griffin, who had lost the Democratic primary for mayor, bolted the party and joined the Conservatives. He won the election with 42% of the vote in a six-man race...
...believe it but there are some professional sports going on around this town. F'rinstance (sic), the Bruins are taking on the Buffalo Sabres tonight at the Boston Garden at 7:30. And they're going to play another game on Sunday, although this game will be played against the New York Islanders, who all talk funny...
...rural Cattaraugus County, 40 miles south of Buffalo, the West Valley nuclear reprocessing plant has been shut down since 1973, when the Getty Oil Co. ceased operations there. Meanwhile, the radioactive waste created by the plant is buried in landfill trenches. Some of the poisonous garbage periodically leaks into Cattaraugus Creek, which feeds into Lake Erie, the source of water for Buffalo and surrounding communities...
David Mamet is the chameleon of young U.S. playwrights. Had he used diverse aliases, few playgoers could have guessed that plays as different in theme and texture as Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo and, now, A Life in the Theater had all been written by the same...