Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest superhero of all, vulnerable to only one substance: Cronkite. And Brinkley was alone. All the other superheroes were dead or useless. Snoopy was missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister Mary. An Amtrak train obliterated her after Dr. Spock bound and gagged her on the tracks...
First, are Americans willing to sacrifice? "Carter said it best when he said we'll never be able to live the same again," says Robert Chess, a machine repairman of Clackamas, Ore. "I'm going to have to change my life-style." Paula Johnson, a suburban Atlanta housewife, has already moved her mother to a nursing home closer to her house, shifted to a smaller car and begun insulating her home. "I'm quite willing to cut down my heat," says Philadelphia Personnel Manager June Rosato. "Shivering a little is the least I can do for my country...
...young children are not in the family station wagon, they are on the school bus. So many older students have cars that high school parking lots are jammed. As suburban mothers do across the country, Hinsdale's decry the time they spend behind the wheel. And well they should: they clock between 6,000 and 8,000 miles a year simply shuttling around the area. Says Mrs. James Gibson, wife of a psychiatrist and mother of four girls: "Everything is event-oriented with children here. Dozens of full-sized station wagons roll just to get teenagers to their parties...
...Wisconsin or Michigan, the gasoline bills are enormous. Mrs. Gibson averages $55 a month for her 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle sedan, which gets 16 miles to the gallon. Her husband spends double that for his 12 m.p.g. Mercedes, which he uses for commuting. John Schmeltzer, editor of the local Suburban Trib, believes that car-buying, if not car-driving, habits are slowly changing. Says he: "People have come down from the huge Cadillacs to Buicks or Oldsmobiles, from a Marquis Brougham to just a Marquis...
...dinner at Wally's house is the appointed double-bed date. But the catch is that Monica has not been told, and she raises demihell. Gleason, a fumingly sexy comedienne, hurls the dinner plates to the table like Frisbees and shot-puts the turkey. Then, like the perfect suburban hostess, she climbs into bed with the others, where monogamous love conquers...