Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial were arrested in the Chicago suburb of Evanston,Ill., last April following the holdup of a car rental agency. Four months later in Cook County courtrooms, two were convicted of robbery and sentenced to 30 years, while the others received eight-year terms for conspiracy and weapons violations. Since some of them would have been eligible for parole in 1984, the Federal Government brought charges of its own, including seditious conspiracy and illegal use of weapons. In all, the feds linked the group to 28 bomb plots in the Chicago area...
...anachronistic target in the '80s, when every Jane Doe scrutinizes her biodegradable cereal box to make sure it has enough vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this cheerfully sterile atmosphere, where brains are not only washed but presoaked, Tomlin's goofy, blissed-out smile serves as both benediction and subversion...
...France's presidential election was unmistakably under way last week. With a typically combative statement, Paris Mayor and neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac, 48, formally announced his candidacy and pledged to halt the "process of degradation" that he blamed on France's present leadership. In the Paris suburb of Créteil ten days earlier, 361 Socialist delegates had gathered in a sports arena to name their 64-year-old leader, François Mitterrand, the party's official standardbearer, thus launching Mitterrand's third bid for the Elysée. Not to be outdone, Communist...
...outdoor altar evoking fishermen's nets was interdicted by First Lady Imelda as too "poor." He had intended to visit a prison; the stop was deleted from his itinerary. He wanted to see a leper colony; instead, a small group of lepers will greet him in a Manila suburb. At the mountain resort of Baguio, John Paul will be entertained by a group of pagan tribespeople, sporting G strings and spears. The Catholic tribespeople, who usually wear Western clothing and eschew spears, will be relegated to the background...
Candidates also got to look the town over. Comfortable family houses, 15 or 20 minutes away in the green foothills by car -and thus the equivalent of an Eastern suburb-are not cheap. But even with a little wooded acreage, their prices are dramatically lower than large houses without land in Westchester County, N. Y. The really good news is that owners pay proportionately far less in property and school taxes. Medford schools are harder to assess. Real Estate Agent Billie Powers recalls that when she moved up from California, her children had to be tutored to catch...