Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daily the lines grow longer-raising the suspicion that the film's popularity may be less a show-business phenomenon than a lesson in crowd psychology. "I'm the first on our street to see it," chirped one suburban matron. All kinds of people, it seems, have been infected by Exorcist fever. Teenage girls on triple-tier wedgies teeter down the aisle behind pin-striped businessmen carrying briefcases. A silver-haired woman clutching a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper slides uneasily into a seat next to a middle-aged naval officer. Most audiences, however, tend to be young...
...church-going Catholic, O'Neill is a moderate social drinker who plays golf for recreation, contentedly shooting in the upper 90s. Instead of joining a fashionable suburban country club, O'Neill slips away to a public course, pays his $ 1.60 and waits for a threesome to come along that needs a fourth...
...some places. Boston Defense Attorney Joseph Balliro points out that "anything that jurors really can't relate to will make them harden up. Motorcycle gangs, homosexuals, radicals, any defendants who threaten the juries emotionally, economically or politically" seem to lend credibility to the policeman as witness. "Suburban, small-town juries," says Balliro, "view a cop as the boy next door because, in a small town, he is." And they believe...
...meantime, Agnew hopes to raise some ready cash by selling his suburban Maryland home outside Washington. The asking price for the 9-room Georgian-style house, which Agnew purchased for $190,000 about a year ago: $325,000. Most of the increase is the result of $125,000 worth of "protective improvements" ordered by the Secret Service. The former Vice President is not required to reimburse the Government for such improvements once out of office. Agnew still has not found a buyer, and even if he manages to get the price he is asking, there are still those irksome debts...
Last week West was tramping in the snow of his suburban district, which lies between Philadelphia and Wilmington, still pondering his compulsion to serve his country. He carried along some old-fashioned notions of good manners, honor and duty, some stern dictums from his parents ("Thank God every day for what you've been given . . . don't feel sorry for yourself . . . admit your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon...