Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bring us all, oh Lord, to our senses," prayed the Rev. Don Adickes, a former Army chaplain and retired colonel, as he closed services at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in the Dallas suburb of Richardson...
...girl, you know it isn't true. Milli Vanilli never sang a note. And allegedly "ghetto-raised" Vanilla Ice is about as street tough as a cream puff. Instead of the street-wise rapper he purports to be, "Ice" is actually the product of a white middle class Dallas suburb, according to Time. His real name: Robert Van Winkle...
...concocted a sophisticated scheme for distributing the windfall. Kuwait City, where 80% of the population still lives (or lived before August), was a town of mud huts. The Emir set about building a modern metropolis, a place not unlike Houston, with its skyscraper business center surrounded by villa-style suburbs. In Kuwait, too, each "suburb" became a self-contained microcosm of a city. The neighborhoods were established as cooperatives. Each had its own supermarkets, schools, medical centers and municipal services...
...mind, she was wrong. One has the right to express ideas and opinions even if they are offensive the overwhelming majority. This right was confirmed by the Supreme Court in its Skokie decision, which allowed Nazis to march in the streets of a predominantly Jewish suburb...
Lawson herself grew up next door to Mississippi, in a suburb of Birmingham. She dropped out of Tuskeegee Institute to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Later she moved to Washington, then spent two years in Tanzania helping bring together Africans and African Americans interested in the arts. After getting a master's degree in film from Columbia University and making "a few mediocre documentaries that definitely will not be shown on public television," Lawson got a job teaching film at Brooklyn College. She also served as executive director of the Film Fund, which financed independent documentaries, and later...