Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tells much, but not everything, about their strategy. They don't just leave little Kevin (bold, vulnerable Macaulay Culkin) at home this time. They contrive to get him on the wrong airplane and land him in a place we all know is a lot more daunting than the average suburb. Soon his parents are frantic in Florida while he settles himself in the Plaza Hotel and starts ordering room service. Soon too, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), the goofily overconfident burglars of the earlier film, are maneuvered into place. And a couple of ambiguously creepy hotel employees...
...example, when lawyers, claiming that it was not possible to find 12 jurors in Los Angeles who had not seen the videotape of the beating, requested that the L.A. police officers' trial be moved, the alternative venue was Simi Valley, a predominantly white L.A. suburb. A jury of non-Blacks was selected and decided that the police officers in question had, almost without exception, not violated the law by their actions...
...Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose residents had long since forgotten the naval chemical-ordnance bunker in their midst. Says Ralph De Gennaro, senior specialist with Friends of the Earth: "Every day we learn more about the Pentagon's environmental pollution. The public still has only a piece of the puzzle...
SCHOOLTEACHERS LUC AND ISABELLE BENTZ are hardly extravagant. By day, both teach immigrant children in low-income districts of Paris. At night, the couple returns to the working-class suburb of Sarcelles where, across from a busy train station, they live in a three-bedroom apartment with their daughter and son, ages 3 years and 18 months. The flat is cozy but small, typical of the low-rent units constructed back in the 1950s to house French families repatriated from North Africa. Together, the Bentzes take home $3,600 a month, not a lot for a family of four...
...know a lot about the criminal-justice system. At 16, he had been in juvenile custody 19 times, charged with aggravated assault, auto theft, robbery, drug possession, escape and contempt of court. Knighton was sent to the Better Outlook Center, a halfway house for juvenile offenders in a Miami suburb. Staff members recall Knighton as hostile and angry at first; later he began to flourish under the supervision of caring adults. "Anthony thought it was heaven," says superintendent Jounice Morris. "It was his first glimpse of stability." Morris, who gave him the nickname "Peanut," recalls that Knighton had the reading...