Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while the history--and even the black history--of Concord is rich and varied, many residents feel this colonial village turned affluent suburb has hardly noticed February's Black History Month...
...case with most musicologists, I started out as a musician," says Radano, who was raised in an upper-class suburb of Manhattan that he describes as "claustrophobic"--at least for an electric guitar playing teenager with hair grown down his back...
...surgeon, Seed grew up in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, where he was, by his own description, the most unpopular student in his high school. Why? "The same reason I'm unpopular here," he says. "I was loquacious, overly intelligent, well educated. I knew too much about too many things, and that angered other people." Seed graduated cum laude from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in physics in 1953. Soon, though, his interests shifted, and he began exploring the new frontier of biomedicine. In the 1970s Seed co-founded a company that commercialized a technique for transferring embryos...
...more. "We thought the change of venue might work," says Blondie. It didn't. Colbert wasn't Hakim and wouldn't say he was. So, with Colbert's house keys in hand, Ryan and Blondie then traveled outside their jurisdiction to search Colbert's apartment in the close-in suburb of Cheltenham. When nothing incriminating was found, the cops returned to headquarters and released Colbert--after six hours of terror. "Let us catch you around here again," Colbert recalls Blondie's saying, "and we'll kill...
...climax of Diebenkorn's work was, by general consent, the Ocean Park series, which he began in 1967. Ocean Park is part of Santa Monica, the beachside suburb of Los Angeles where he had his studio. From its high crystalline light, its big calm planes of sea and sky, its cuts and interlacings of highway divider and curb and gable and yellow sand, Diebenkorn produced a marvelous synthesis that, though prolonged through more than 140 large canvases, had very few weak moments...