Word: shores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joel aims for the universal but smartly stays close to home. If Bruce Springsteen is the Jersey shore, Billy is Long Island, where the working class that fled Brooklyn stares stilettos at the moneyed folk who summer in the Hamptons. The album opens with the stinging No Man's Land, a rant anthem to the area's cultural deforestation ("Give us this day our daily discount- outlet merchandise,/ Raise up a multiplex and we will pay the sacrifice"), and closes with Famous Last Words, a snapshot of a resort town after Labor Day ("Nothing left for a dreamer now,/ Only...
...murder of a German tourist in April sent out global shock waves -- and sent Florida officials scrambling to shore up their image as the Sunshine | State. Driving in from the airport in an Alamo rental car, Barbara Meller- Jensen had taken the wrong turn and ended up in one of Miami's poorer neighborhoods. When she felt her car hit from behind, she got out to see what had happened. Then, as her six-year-old son watched, thieves beat her, robbed her, climbed back into their car, gunned their engine and drove over her head. To counter the impression...
...Richter scale, destroyed villages and set fires across a small island near Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main islands. At least 166 people were killed -- most by the 10-ft.-to-30-ft. tidal waves, or tsunamis, that swept victims into the ocean and tossed boats onto the shore...
...Russian community of Ivan-Gorod. They used to make the trip easily, before the break-up of the Soviet Union turned the Narva River into the official boundary between two independent countries. Above the huge medieval fortress that guards the west bank flies the Estonian flag. On the eastern shore, a rugged rampart displays the Russian tricolor. On the bridge below, lines of pedestrians and cars move slowly between customs posts set up at both ends. "We built this city," says Ivan, pointing back to Narva as he and his wife make their way to the Russian side, where bread...
...detritus are picnic tables and automobiles, tree stumps and deer. At least two children. Even the barges that usually command the waterway as they move the river basin's produce to the rest of the world have been rendered helpless. They are inert and tethered to a vanished shore. The high waters have made the river unnavigable; there is no longer enough clearance for large ships to pass under the Mississippi's bridges...