Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...neighborhood where spending vast sums quickly is a habit of nobility, the Saudis and Iranians are truly princes, if not kings. There is the story about the two Saudi princesses who, with their bodyguard, arrived late one Friday demanding to get in touch with the Bank of America, though the bank was closed. Soon, however, the bank delivered, in a special car, an envelope containing $200,000?shopping money for Saturday. Another Saudi princess recently walked into Giorgio, picked up $30,000 worth of dresses in a couple of hours, then with a flourish gave the owner's wife...
...into a few local Long Island rock groups and recorded one solo album, which resulted in little notice and a prolonged legal wrangle with his management. Joel and his girlfriend Elizabeth lit out for L.A. To pay the rent, he played cocktail piano for half a year in a neighborhood bar called the Executive Room that advertised BILL MARTIN AT THE KEYBOARD. Joel emerged from this honky-tonk penance with a new wife (Elizabeth), a new contract from a major company (Columbia), and a new album whose title song, Piano Man, became a hit single...
Every now and then, residents of Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood see a rumpled man with sad beagle eyes bearing a big, round bundle from his bachelor apartment to a coin-operated basement laundry. There goes W. Michael Blumenthal, 52, one of the most potent powers of global finance, carrying his dirty underwear to a washing. Blumenthal surely could afford a maid, even though he took a $534,000 salary cut-from $600,000 down to $66,000-when he left private industry to become a Government servant. But he prefers to perform his own chores because...
...failure to reverse deepening unemployment and to solve other economic troubles was sharpened by a growing despair over an epidemic of violence. Then came a sudden eruption of new bloodshed. The troubles began over the long Epiphany weekend, when a team of six extremists, presumedly leftwing, pounced on a neighborhood headquarters of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.) on Rome's outskirts and assassinated two young people. In rioting that followed, another young M.S.I, member was killed in a clash with carabinieri...
...prosecuted by the city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges. "The youngster knows the judge, and everyone else knows the youngster," says Judge David Kenyon. "No way is the youngster going...