Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long buried chemicals rise up to scarify a neighborhood...
...known to cause cancer in animals. One, benzene, has been linked to leukemia in humans. Women living in the area have suffered 50% more miscarriages than would be expected. There is also a high incidence of birth defects among children; of 24 youngsters in the southernmost section of the neighborhood, health officials report four are mentally retarded. Local residents are doubly upset by the suggestion that they leave the area because their houses are now virtually unmarketable, and without money to rent elsewhere, most of them simply have no place...
...that commenced in Tahiti, Princess Caroline of Monaco and Philippe Junot strolled on the Ocean City, N.J., beach like a couple of locals. Joining them at the surfside home of Caroline's maternal grandma, Margaret Kelly, was Princess Grace. Instead of a little Saturday night fever at a neighborhood disco, Caroline and Philippe opted for a Gay Jitterbug. The horse, that is, whose jockey, Steve Cauthen, was presented the winner's cup by the newlyweds at the nearby Atlantic City race track...
...humor over 300 years. Cuckold jokes were a scream in 1675, but they are an anachronism now. Moreover, words don't mean the same things now as they did then. When Sparkish calls Horner "the sign of a man" after a long discussion of the street signs in the neighborhood, he is referring to Horner's supposed sexual malady, "sign" meaning the shadow of a man. Uh, right...
...months, and upwards of 30 songs, to come up with Darkness on the Edge of Town, which headed straight for the Top Ten after its release in June. It has been there ever since, setting up a long-term residence and lending a little class to that generally tacky neighborhood...