Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE CHANGES AFFECT the whole city, all five boroughs. But Brooklyn alone reeled under further blows. Southern Brooklyn has through the years become predominantly white, northern Brooklyn predominately black. Brooklyn public schools reflected this state of affairs, with the southern schools mostly white, better funded and academically superior. Two years ago the State Commissioner of Education decided to bus white kids north and black kids south to increase racial integration. To white parents this meant sending their kids into dangerous, crime-ridden neighborhoods and inferior schools simply to please the state government far off in Albany. To principals and staff...
...tacit support of Jordan's King Hussein. But radical Palestinians denounced Sadat as a traitor and put a price on his head. A so-called summit of Arab "steadfast states" in Tripoli, convoked by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, froze relations with Egypt. Calling their bluff?without Egypt defending the southern front, another Arab war against Israel would be a hopeless enterprise?Sadat broke off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. His critics, said Sadat, were "dwarfs...
...reservoirs, possibly with enough water to irrigate half a million acres for 700 years. Egyptian officials call this area "the New Valley" and predict that one day it may rival the Nile Valley itself. One hundred thousand people have already been resettled at the Kharga Oasis, at the southern end of this underground water supply...
...Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner Bros.). Soft, rocking, love-gone-wrong songs turn out right on a tasteful album that not only earned critical praise but became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards...
...there is nothing timid about his music. With a three-piece band behind him, he blasts out a stream of riffs that recalls the piston rhythms of Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Little Richard and the early Beatles. The songs are angrier than the soft rock that spun out of Southern California onto the record charts this year, and Costello sings them with a prophet's urgency. In the light of his sizzling reception on a just completed U.S. tour, the message seems clear: rock may still be smooth and sophisticated at the top, but it is getting good...