Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
Gillette, a native of Lake Forest, Ill., who now lives in the Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, says that as an undergraduate, he never imagined he would one day be the Square's center attraction...
...says Copeland, who put cheeseburger pizza on the Straya menu and says it's a sign of his restraint and good taste that he didn't put this restaurant "concept" farther up genteel St. Charles, "in the middle of antebellum homes." Copeland, who opened his first Straya in a suburb three years ago without complaint, hired some of the 200 employees for his new restaurant from the depressed neighborhood to the north of the restaurant...
Last Wednesday a painter spotted a struggle while working on a neatly kept house in Tampa's working-class Orient Park suburb. Inside, a naked man appeared to be throttling a naked woman. The witness called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton, says a neighbor, "came out of the house staggering. His shirt was unbuttoned, and he had blood all over his chest." Apparently drunk, he announced that he had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he moved casually to answer a ringing phone...
...Guinness had died years ago. I transmitted this misinformation to my trusting comrades, who in turn transmitted it to their comrades. In short, I am responsible for an entire community of people who are convinced that Alec Guinness, who is presently alive and well and living in a London suburb, actually bit it back in the late '80s. Obi-Wan Kenobi's dialogue with Luke in that memorable scene from Star Wars, as a result, had its unlikely effect on me: "Oh, he's not dead; not yet." Well, apparently...