Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of last year's Bicentennial spirit, a startling extravagance of good feeling after so much bad, has spilled over into the 201st birthday. Wellesley, Mass., an expensive suburb of Boston, had such an unexpectedly good time with itself last year that it decided to devote this entire summer to community dances, concerts and other parties. The town's weekly newspaper editorialized: "This is the summer to find out what a home town is all about." Last year's tall ships are scattered around the world now, but on the weekend of the Fourth, New York will have an armada...
Imagine trying to be a regional writer in Los Angeles, the world's most celebrated suburb of nowhere. Eve Babitz -Hollywood born and raised-tries and immediately runs into a problem. "In Los Angeles," she writes, "it's hard to tell if you're dealing with the real true illusion or the false one." An author who distinguishes between true and false illusions must be carefully watched. Babitz calls the ten pieces in her book "tales," but they clearly belong to the mode of parafictions: a mix of autobiography, journalism and the techniques of the short story...
...working-class suburb of Vallecas, so leftist that even in Franco days it was known as "Little Russia," a factory worker talked proudly of his Socialist vote?though he allowed that Suárez was simpático. "I am 34 and these elections are good for me, but mainly they are good for my children," he said. "We don't want to think about the civil war. That was a crime. Brother against brother. No one wants it again...
...Ocean Parks, the monumental series of paintings Diebenkorn began in 1967 and named after the Los Angeles suburb where he now lives, have attracted their share of hyperbole. One New York critic likened them to both Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ducal Palace in Mantua - which may be the silliest indulgence since Truman Capote last compared himself to Marcel Proust. However, they are certainly among the most beautiful declamations in the language of the brush to have been uttered anywhere in the past 20 years...
...middle-class Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Ill., 800 students from Bogan High School gather in the ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged...