Word: ga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan, Ga., to a small town near Spartanburg, S.C., turned up at the family's new back door a year later...
Once again our protagonist is Trapped, a bright, attractive housewife dramatizing wildly to retain her sanity while being battered senseless by the weapons of Domesticity. Addressing the audience as one would the wall in a world gone ga-ga, the wife. Babs, bobs and jiggles like an adorable, black-eyed marionette. Objects like vacuum cleaners, blenders and detergents take on a sinister life of their own: the dog, her one friend, weighs about 250 pounds, goes shopping and watches television. The play is liberating because it magnifies everyday neuroses into a giddy surrealism that comes far closer to capturing...
...assassinating Roosevelt. This seems incredible: the Italian actor is in Hollywood beginning a movie career even though he can barely speak English. However, Levi's disappearance from a film studio sets off a cross-country chase. With a sackful of disguises, Levi makes his way to Warm Springs, Ga., where F.D.R. is soaking his paralyzed legs. The showdown brings on Nazi agents and a three-way shootout, though that is not the way the story ends...
DIED. Mattie Talmadge, 100, proud, wizened, indomitable matriarch of Georgia's most prominent 20th century political dynasty (Husband Gene was elected Governor four times, and Son Herman served as Governor for seven years and four terms as U.S. Senator); in McRae, Ga. Six days after the Talmadges arrived at the Governor's mansion in 1933, "Miss Mit," refusing to shuck her rural demeanor, returned to the family's McRae plantation because she was homesick for the cows and chickens. She raised eyebrows again in 1936 when she spurned Eleanor Roosevelt's invitation to the White House...
...Savannah, Ga., efforts began in the mid-'70s to restore the city's Victorian district, tenanted mainly by the poor, elderly and black. It was slow going until McNulty and Partners went to work, championing the project, bringing in TV reporters and, at one point in 1978, even luring an approving First Lady Rosalynn Carter to town. During her visit, the Ford Foundation announced a loan of $750,000. The ballyhoo also convinced the black community that gentrification was not just for the gentry...