Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After this return visit, it seems clear that when the map of Television Land is drawn, the eight-room Loud ranch house will be as much a landmark " as the Cleaver family's two-story white colonial. Just as the homogenized family sitcoms of the '50s became emblems of that "decade, the Loud family's home movies may be the veristic vision of the polarized family of the '70s. So stay tuned, video voyeurs, for the next installment of the Loud saga. Say in ten years, when the prospective grandchildren are old enough to be interviewed...
...prolonged Madrid meeting, which was initially slated to last no more than two or three months, fell victim to the deterioration of détente. The original Helsinki agreement was hailed as a diplomatic landmark. In essence, it traded de facto Western recognition of post-World War II boundaries in Europe for a host of cooperative understandings, and for Moscow's broad endorsement of a number of human rights concerns. Yet many Western diplomats now describe the Helsinki agreement as "a mess." Despite the restrictions contained in the accords, notably clauses respecting national sovereignty and rejecting interference...
Wrecked or merely switched onto another line, the Government's operations in virtually every realm are potentially altered by the landmark decision...
Grendel's (89 Winthrop St.). Not many bars can brag about being opened by the United States Supreme Court but Grendel's Bar--located right below the restaurant with the same name--is one which can. A landmark court decision last fall struck down a time-worn Massachusetts law allowing churches to veto liquor license applications for establishments within 500 feet of their property. Grendel's Bar is the newest in the Square, and is fast developing a regular clientele. It is also the only bar which allows customers to select their choice of record and then plays it from...
...hope that the high court might some day reverse itself. But in a decisive set of opinions handed down last week, filled with forceful phrases that seemed addressed to the controversy in the country as well as in the courts, a clear majority of the Justices roundly reaffirmed the landmark 1973 decision as the law of the land...