Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work, but nobody feeds them because there is no money to hire meter maids. Garbage collection stopped for several months after the city fell $262,000 behind in payments to its trash contractor, and remains sporadic at best. Residents routinely dump garbage in vacant lots or abandoned buildings. As fast as buildings are boarded up to stop looting and dumping, thieves steal the plywood. Bob's Board-Up Service in St. Louis no longer accepts jobs in East St. Louis because customers there don't pay their bills...
...experiment has been called a potential "cornerstone in biology." Maybe so, but it will hardly make genetic engineering a kitchen-table technology. Advocates of gene transplants have long pointed to the potential benefits of altered animals -- disease-resistant pigs, fast-growing cows and the like. Medical researchers are already using engineered mice to study the mechanics of cancer and heart disease. But genetic engineering is a process that involves many difficult steps, and the new breakthrough will at best simplify just one of them...
...possible for an obscure religious fanatic to lead one of the great revolutionary upheavals of this century? To begin with, the time was ripe. The Shah had pushed his feudal and devout country into the modern, secular world too far and too fast, using torture and execution to suppress dissent. In addition, Khomeini's place in the world of Shi'ite theology gave him a platform. Unlike Sunni Muslims, members of Islam's other, much larger branch, Shi'ites believe in an intermediary between God and man. In Shi'ism's first centuries, this role of mediator was played...
...York -- originated in Seattle, while Neil Simon's Rumors and A.R. Gurney's off-Broadway smash The Cocktail Hour were launched in San Diego. These are just a few examples of the fundamental trend in American culture nowadays: democratization through decentralization. Places that used to be outposts are fast becoming landmarks...
...mail-order brides. Henley's underlying theme seems to be the way people change during the course of life, often swapping roles with intimates: the exuberant pioneer gradually becomes a timid drudge, while her starry-eyed friend hardens into an adventurer. The final scenes do too much too fast and too vaguely. But the script has the makings of Henley's best work since her stunning debut in Crimes of the Heart...