Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your Rhythm Stick." Although Dury "is thought to be a punk rocker," Schama says he could be better titled as "the poet of Mrs. Thatcher's England. He is clearly in love with Britain and yet he is quite cynical. He sings in the accent of the blighted London suburb...
...former altar boy and the son of an ex-FBI agent, Boyce grew up in Palos Verdes, Calif., a well-heeled suburb of Los Angeles. He became disillusioned with America after Viet Nam and Watergate. While working as a communications clerk with top security clearance for TRW Inc. in nearby Redondo Beach, he and a friend decided to peddle classified information to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The pair sold $76,000 worth of secrets before they were caught in early...
...story so far: Dick, the oldest, has just purchased new $ 1 million digs in the tony New Jersey suburb of Saddle River. He's now trying to unload, for $2.9 million, the East Side Manhattan town house he bought for $750,000 just two years ago. Jimmy, the youngest, is usually down home in Plains, Ga., watching his life pass before him on the video screen of his word processor. Last week the two took time out for trips abroad...
About two months ago, David Tendler, 43, the chairman of Phibro, first began meeting socially in a New York suburb with John Gutfreund, 51, the managing partner of Salomon Bros., and several members of his seven-man executive committee. The talks were cloaked in the extreme secrecy that has become the hallmark of the two companies...
...seems to believe. The great underground truth of our society-a republic in which three-fourths of the males and every female over the age of nine are chained to the Scarsdale Diet, the Beverly Hills Diet, or perhaps by now a starvation routine concocted in some other overfed suburb whose inhabitants are rumored to be of ectoplasmic skinniness-is that more and more of us are now strung out on heavy cream, egg yolks, pure vanilla and-yes, oh yes-hot fudge topping with whipped cream, jimmies and walnuts...