Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes the ads are quirkily self-conscious. "Ahem," began one suitor in the New York Review of Books. "Decent, soft-spoken sort, sanely silly, philosophish, seeks similar." Then he started to hit his stride: "Central Jersey DM WASP professional, 38, 6 ft.2", slow hands, student of movies and Marx, gnosis and news, craves womanish companionship...
...Great American Get- Rich-Quick Fantasy. As what the tabloids promptly dubbed Lotto Lunacy became epidemic, some 4,000 outlets across the state handled 72 million separate bets. The storm of ticket buying reached such a pitch that thousands of hopeful pilgrims flocked in from Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and even farther afield. Players who spent as long as three hours in line came with big dreams of what they would buy (a Tudor house, the New York Yankees), small ones (roller skates for little brother) or get-even ones (buy the firm and fire the boss) if their luck...
...have great respect for Harvard, but unfortunately Harvard is run by human beings, and it's human to err. I believe injustice has been done to me, African Studies and that department," he said from his New Jersey home...
...little friendly people living in the crack. One day while I was staring at the crack, it suddenly opened about five inches, and little pieces fell out of it. That really happened. I was afraid of clouds, the wind, trees -- there was a forest outside my window in New Jersey, and at night the trees had silhouettes of arms and heads and tentacles. I liked being scared. It was very stimulating. In my films I celebrate the imagination as a tool of great creation and a device for the ultimate scream, and even as a kid I liked pushing myself...
...because they have converged on the main cities of half a dozen states. Nowhere is the change more evident than in California, which has become home to 64% of the country's Asians and 35% of its Hispanics. Next comes New York, followed by Texas, Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. Miami is 64% Hispanic, San Antonio 55%. Los Angeles has more Mexicans (2 million) than any other city except metropolitan Mexico City, and nearly half as many Salvadorans (300,000) as San Salvador...