Word: suburb
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Most of Williams' characters are children of his imagination?an imagination nurtured during the requisite lonely childhood. The last child of a vice president of the Ford Motor Co., Robin was born in Chicago and grew up in the posh Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. His two half brothers were already grown when he was born, and Robin spent hours alone in the family's immense house, tape-recording television routines of comics and sneaking up to the attic to practice his imitations. "My imagination was my friend, my companion," he recalls...
...divisions also exist between workers in each of the three sectors. These tensions produce antagonisms between the suburb and the inner city, and by general private sector sentiment against wage increases in the public sector. O'Connor adds, however, that these tensions are superficial, suggesting several means whereby working people can unite to secure democratic control of state expenditures...
...Communist Party's 42nd Fête de I'Humanité last week was outwardly the same as always. Part county fair, part political convention, the annual get-together is a celebration of gastronomy, games and proletarian sloganeering that for two days turns the working-class Paris suburb of La Courneuve into a Communist carnival. Yet for all the gourmandizing hoopla, this year's fete was hardly the joyful event of the past few Septembers, when the party was confidently anticipating a leftist victory in last March's parliamentary elections. In the wake of the left...
...successful work was a joint effort of two five-man research teams-one at the City of Hope National Medical Center in the Los Angeles suburb of Duarte, under Dr. Keiichi Itakura, the other led by Biochemist David Goeddell at a small South San Francisco biochemical firm, Genentech Inc. Though scientists had already produced a precursor of rat insulin with bacteria, making the finished human variety posed greater difficulties. For it consists of two distinct molecular chains, a so-called A strand and a B strand, each of which is produced separately inside the cells of the pancreas under...
They feed lines to each other with the smooth telepathy of an old married couple, but in fact their only relationship is professional. He grew up in Philadelphia and wanted to be a song-and-dance man; she was raised in a suburb of Chicago and wanted to sing in cabarets. When they met at the Proposition in Cambridge, however, they knew they had something else going. "We thought, 'Wouldn't we be great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years...