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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coastsweep, part of an 8-year-old nationwide celebration known as Coast Weeks, kicked off at Revere Beach. About 200 people collected 4 tons of garbage -- and still they couldn't say their work was through...
...Samuel Pierce, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pierce had agreed to testify before the House subcommittee investigating charges that his department had a soft spot for well-connected Republicans who garnered huge fees for helping developers land multimillion-dollar federal housing contracts. But Pierce, known as Silent Sam, decided to live up to the name. He informed the panel, headed by California's Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, that he was canceling his appearance. He said his newly hired lawyers needed more time to prepare...
Most of those accomplishments date from the show's first five seasons -- also known as the Golden Age. A young producer named Lorne Michaels had assembled a talented group of writers and performers from such cutting-edge venues as the Second City satirical troupe and National Lampoon magazine. Chevy Chase was the show's first star and formative influence, but the group effort soon produced a cornucopia of cultural reference points for the '70s: Roseanne Roseannadanna, the Coneheads, the Nerds, Belushi's Samurai warrior, Dan Aykroyd's Tom Snyder...
...rumored to have chosen Atlantic City as their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...
JERUSALEM: CITY OF MIRRORS by Amos Elon (Little, Brown; $19.95). "Where there is so much destructive memory, a little forgetfulness may be in order," concludes one of Israel's best-known writers in this anecdotal history chronicling 4,000 years of trouble in his hometown...