Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flummery. As poor Brian wriggles, and each new page takes a turn for the worse, the author pea-shoots expertly at all of the usual suburban targets. Even when the satire is forced, it is usually funny, as when the suet-brained Wendy tells Brian: "In a relationship you're just screwing the guy. In a meaningful relationship, you're screwing him and also he's your best friend...
...list caused a pacifist to become mixed up with bomb-throwing subversives. In The Hot Rock (1970), a raffish foursome engineered several fiendishly clever jewel thefts in search of a rare emerald that turned out never to be where it was supposed to be. In Bank Shot (1972), a suburban bank temporarily operating out of a mobile home was robbed by a gang that simply hauled it away...
...John Roth, 66, federal district court judge who in a 1971 decision (now being reviewed by the Supreme Court) ruled that Detroit public schools were racially segregated as a result of state and local policies and ordered them to integrate, through the use of busing, with schools in 52 suburban districts; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich...
...days as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After a brief stint in investment banking, Rumsfeld was elected Congressman from suburban Chicago's affluent North Shore in 1962, earned a reputation as a moderate conservative. In 1969 President Nixon persuaded him to give up a promising House career to direct the Office of Economic Opportunity. Appointed to NATO in 1973, he may be thinking of taking on Governor Daniel Walker...
...John Lindsay as the most visible articulator of urban problems. Educated at Williams, White was elected Massachusetts secretary of state in 1959 and went on to win the mayoralty in 1967 against antibusing candidate Louise Day Hicks. Though he has earned a measure of good will with a sizable suburban residential rebuilding program and a network of "little city halls," trouble looms this fall when citywide school busing is scheduled to begin despite strong community opposition...