Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying to set fire to the contents, which included BB guns and maps which showed abandoned mines and ranger stations...
...Jingo. Papadopoulos himself no longer is under strict house arrest but lives quietly in a seaside villa rented from Aristotle Onassis. The suburban Athens house that Papadopoulos formerly occupied was recently rented by the bureau chief of the New York Times...
...vigorous at 63. He is a Republican who tends toward the liberal wing and speaks with an aristocratic New England accent. A needle-point wall-hanging of a bald eagle holding the stars and stripes decorates one wall of the small study in his modest, modern ranch house in suburban Lincoln...
...liked country songs but didn't like the discontinuous steel guitar work or the plodding, tchika-tchika drumming? Well, then you just weren't into Country and Western music. The whole effect of this categorization of musical genres was to impart a sort of guilty arteriosclerosis to more suburban artists, even if it did open up new areas to people and let the experts have something to be expert about. When somebody wails at you "CAN YOU DIG IT, I MEAN CAN YOU DIG THE BLUES?" it is difficult, even within your own mind, to answer "well, sometimes, but usually...
Vanilla Extract. Most school officials are too embarrassed by the alcohol problem to do much more than reluctantly admit that it exists. One system that has faced up to it and conducted reliable surveys is in the suburban county of San Mateo, south of San Francisco. There, in 1970, school officials found, 11 % of the ninth grade boys (13-and 14-year-olds) said that they had drunk some kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage...