Word: local
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles suburb of Tarzana. But after just a month there, Round Two of elder-care hell began. While taking a walk around the block, he fell. I was out of town on assignment. By the time I got back to the city, 12 hours later, the local emergency-room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said, and was uncontrollable--a man who weighed only 130 lbs. In just three days my father went from...
...pushing his good-neighbor policy beyond the gates of the Country Club. He has provided scholarships to Baton Rouge students (and $25,000 to the local Boy Scouts), given equipment to schools and handed out Thanksgiving turkeys and winter coats. He has also given talks on the importance of staying in school and avoiding drugs and violence...
...that kind of news no longer fazes P's neighbors. "I thought for sure we might see some white flight," says one. "But most of the time we barely know they're there. They send their kids to the local private schools. They're just like everyone else." In fact, instead of flight, residents are holding on to property. Says a local real estate agent: "There are fewer houses for sale than at any other time in the past five years...
Maybe the Depression made Hollywood do it. Most of the studios were losing money by 1932 (RKO declared bankruptcy), and racy films brought in the money. But they also fanned the ire of state and local censorship boards. In 1934 the new Production Code had teeth, and under Joseph I. Breen, a former newspaperman, it bit hard. Dialogue was denatured from snappy to sappy; gowns hid what they once revealed; evil lost a lot of its seductive plausibility. And as studios sought to rerelease their pre-Code films, Breen insisted that cuts be made in the master negative, thus censoring...
...Wisconsin refuses to follow the new procedures. Officials from the state, whose donor programs are rated among the best, are worried that there will be "a mass exodus" of donated organs out of the state, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. To make matters more heated, a local hero, former Chicago Bears running back WALTER PAYTON, is waiting for a liver at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Potentially, he would be helped by the new rules...