Word: hazel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some time between sunset and moonrise, against a blue-white autumn sky, seven geese head south over the Detroit suburbs. They sweep low by a bowling alley and veer purposefully toward the pond at Hazel Park race track...
...parking lot around the Hazel Park Lounge and Bowl is full. The men's Monday-night bowling league has arrived. The cars bear testimony to hard times. In the '70s, the boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS...
...Lorean was building a reputation for questionable business dealings. A scheme to promote miniature race cars failed, under a cloud, in the mid-1970s. An accomplice in several controversial ventures has been Roy Sigurd Nesseth, a former used-car dealer about De Lorean's age. Los Angeles Socialite Hazel Dean, sixtyish, has claimed in court that Nesseth, acting in concert with De Lorean, defrauded her of several million dollars in the 1970s after she hired Nesseth to manage her affairs. De Lorean and Nesseth in 1976 took over a failing Wichita, Kans., Cadillac dealership. After reneging on various agreements, they...
Beyond the vagaries of home and family, reruns bring back a whole range of social attitudes that are purportedly bygone. In Gilligan's Island (1964-67), for example, everyone kowtows to the millionaire, even on an island where his money means nothing. In Hazel (1961-66), a normal middle-class family can find, afford and need a servant-and not because the mother is working or has more than one child. In The Odd Couple (1970-75), two men of a certain age can live together, in traditional masculine-slob and effeminate-fussbudget roles, without an automatic assumption that...
...Felipe Road rattle in the rack, and the forest of real estate signs on San Benito Street shiver at the crest of a quake scoring 3 or more on the Richter scale. When a 5.9 quake snaked through town in August 1979, Tricia Brem was in labor at Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital; her bed rolled across the room and slammed into the opposite wall. During the same quake, Store Owner Fernando Gonzalez watched $30,000 worth of liquor somersault from his shelves. Gonzalez was a new man to the liquor business, and an old timer cracked, "He should have...