Word: suburb
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...when Michael Stanley* Dukakis was born, Panos had a thriving medical practice and could afford a frame house in Brookline, a well-to-do Boston suburb. Euterpe gave up teaching to raise her two boys, the first of whom, Stelian, was born in 1930. Although he worked twelve-hour days, Panos came home at 6 p.m. to listen to CBS radio news and have dinner. He sat at the head of the table, a formidable presence in a three-piece suit, speaking little and leaving early enough to return to his office for several hours. The Dukakises prospered, but they...
This is the suburb as failed Eden, noted by two out of three American sociologists and not a few novelists. But Fischl's project is not to embroider cliches on it. Rather he finds images that seem to trail a whole narrative history behind them, but obliquely -- so that you, as viewer, are put at the threshold of a hidden life that may, if you look closer, be yours. Fischl is a true American realist, but he works at a pitch of psychological truth ! (especially about adolescent sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears...
Three weeks after Josefa Edralin Marcos died at age 95, her body is still under glass in a bronze coffin at a funeral home in a well-to-do Manila suburb. White lilies sent by her absent son from exile in Hawaii are fading. Blocking her burial is a contest of wills between President Corazon Aquino and supporters of the deposed Ferdinand Marcos...
Next day more than 14,000 workers at the Lenin steelworks went on strike in the drab Cracow suburb of Nowa Huta. Besides seeking 50% pay hikes for themselves, they insisted that compensatory payments be doubled for millions of other Poles. The Nowa Huta strikers also called for reinstatement of four fired Solidarity activists...
Earlier in the week Aquino had received some very good news. In a major raid in a suburb of Manila, soldiers rounded up five top Communist insurgents, including Romulo ("Rolly") Kintanar, the commander of the 25,000-member New People's Army, and Rafael Baylosis, the No. 2 man in the party. The arrests amounted to the single largest roundup of Communist rebels since Aquino came to power in 1986, and could create a crippling power vacuum within the N.P.A. -- at least for a while...