Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Canal treaty. Another major fight will begin, possibly this summer, after U.S. negotiators initial a SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union to set new limits on both countries' nuclear arsenals. By early spring, the Senate will have received legislation from the House for a tax cut in the neighborhood of $25 billion, as proposed by President Carter...
...residents' arguments in favor of the petition emphasized the "character and "charm" of the neighborhood. About 25 neighbors attended the hearing, most of them voicing support of the petition, citing such reasons as the importance of preserving open space in the mostly residential section of north Cambridge...
...about $4 million to seek a cure and control the disease this year. How feeble that is. We pay about $6 million a year for special limousine and airplane service for Washington's Government bigwigs. The Dutch elm disease has denuded whole communities, devastated suburbs, cost billions in neighborhood devaluation and incalculable aesthetic loss that some experts say has markedly altered home environments. Maybe there is a message in the White House front yard, which is everybody's front yard...
Travolta plays Tony Manero, king of the Bay Ridge, Brooklyn disco scene. From the opening shot, a sweeping glance of Bay Ridge streets complete with pizzerias, neighborhood stores and the F train rumbling overhead, we know Tony is in control of his environment. In the background float the strains of "Staying Alive" by the Bee Gees, who wrote and performed the movie's score. Tony works in a paint store, a job that proves singularly unpromising. But he really lives for Saturday night, when he and his friends hit the 2001: Odyssey discotheque...
...Ridge world. Tony is growing up, moving apart from this Italian ghetto. And that growth is immeasurably accelerated by Stephanie Mangano (Karen Lynn Gorney), another Bay Ridge dancer whom Tony meets at the 2001 and with whom he inevitably falls in love. Stephanie looks down on Tony and his neighborhood because she works in a Manhattan record agency, where everything is beautiful: "The people are beautiful, the offices are beautiful, lunch hours are beautiful, everyone shops at Bonwit Teller," she maintains. The first time Tony and Stephanie talk over coffee is a funny scene, with Stephanie obnoxiously dropping names...