Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indigenous ruburbanites have developed interesting ways to remind migrants of their presence. Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far into the night, accompanied by rebel yells and the shattering of beer bottles. Newcomers create different problems for the police. Although such naughty amusements are passe in the suburbs, the police chief of Harvard, Ill., had to ask the host of a nude cocktail party to pull the shades...
...front line in western Lebanon to a more secure location 17 miles south of Beirut. In the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon, meanwhile, Syrians and Israelis remain poised within sight of each other across a tense, mile-wide line. Assad's influence has also reached right into the inner circles of U.S. diplomacy. Partly because Assad refused to see him again, Washington replaced U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib with Robert McFarlane. After his first meeting with the Syrian President three weeks ago, McFarlane left Damascus as frustrated and empty-handed as his predecessor...
...powerful Strauss tone poems. The wind instruments are louder and more penetrating than classical flutes, oboes and clarinets and more complex in their mechanisms. The piano, a huge concert grand with a booming bass, is worlds removed from its gentler 18th century forerunner. In this welter of sound, inner voices are lost, delicate balances are destroyed. Exciting as the performance might be, the result is as distorted a reproduction of an art work as the Mona Lisa on a Trinitron...
...City in 1972 to take a job as an economist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. In 1976 Wheat was elected to the Missouri general assembly. During his six-year tenure, he was elected chairman of the 19-member black caucus and pushed legislation benefiting his inner-city constituents, including a tax-abatement plan to spur rehabilitation of substandard housing. Says he: "I had a lot of frustrations and disappointments, but my idealism survived...
...Fourth of July festivities had barely subsided in Town Garden Apartments, a housing project in Buffalo's low-income black section of the inner city, when Cecelia Williams, her two children tucked in bed, decided to visit her sister elsewhere in the complex. While she was away, a man in blue jogging shorts and a T shirt broke a window, climbed into the sparsely furnished home, and carried off Williams' ten-year-old daughter Andrea. Hours later, as police combed the area, Williams' husband Willie and a restive throng of worried neighbors crowded into the small apartment...