Word: collared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordeal began with every parent's nightmare: small children, unguarded for a few moments, tumble into tragedy. Jessica's teenage parents Chip, 18, and Reba, 17, live in a blue-collar section of Midland (pop. 100,000), a drilling center hard hit by the oil slump. Chip McClure is a house painter, and Reba helped baby-sit at the home of her sister-in-law Donna Johnson. It is still unclear how Jessica managed to fall through the 8-in. opening, partly covered only by a flowerpot, in the Johnson backyard. But suddenly last Wednesday she was wedged...
...other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will allow GM to proceed with already announced plans to close 16 plants, idling 36,000 employees, or 10% of the company's blue-collar work force, by 1989. Even the U.A.W. must have recognized that slumping GM could not afford to provide as much job security as surging Ford, which last year earned more money than its archrival for the first time in 62 years...
Yuppie shows are easy to spot. CBS's Everything's Relative revolves around two brothers who share a New York apartment and a nagging mother. One (John Bolger) is a blue-collar swinger; the other (Jason Alexander), a buttoned-down yuppie who does consumer research for products like sushi-on-a-stick. In NBC's My Two Dads, two bachelors get joint custody of a twelve-year-old girl, whom one of them -- no one knows which -- has fathered. Again, they are a contrasting pair: Greg Evigan is a free-spirited artist, Paul Reiser a compulsive financial analyst who describes...
Carr's piece, entitled "S. End landmark and an unwanted future neighbor," was about a gay bar that is trying to move across the street from Foley's--apparently one of Carr's favorite "blue-collar" drinking spots. He begins his gay-bashing by noting that Chaps--the name of the proposed bar--may hold 1200 people while Foley's can hold only 100. "If this goes through," he writes, "they are going to have us outnumbered, in our own neighborhood, by at least a 10-1 margin." (Emphasis Carr...
...Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month after the Northwest Airlines crash that killed 156 people, the Rev. John Irish, a Roman Catholic priest, was on hand to console them. And, apparently, to con them. Last week Detroit authorities said that Irish, who was dressed in a black suit and clerical collar, was actually a veteran ambulance chaser posing as a priest to steer business to a Florida lawyer named Ronald Brimmell. Says Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano: "He would try to win the confidence of victims' families, and then say, 'I have this friend who is an attorney...