Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation of slang to come from? Not from Valley Girl, the argot made famous lately by Singer Frank Zappa and his daughter, who is named Moon Unit Zappa. "Val" is really a sort of satire of slang, a goof on language and on the dreamily dumb and self-regarding suburban kids who may actually talk like that. It would come out all wrong if a minister were to compose his sermon in Val. "The Lord is awesome," he would have to begin. "He knows that life can sometimes be, like, grody-grody to the max! Fer shirr...
From his home in suburban St. Louis, not far from Mark Twain's Mississippi River, Stanley Elkin once remarked that "the consummate salesman also needs a customer who doesn't want to buy." He was talking about inspiration and performance, the challenge of turning accessory into necessity. He was also offering a fragment of autobiography...
...home. Although he was arraigned on other charges (including failing to register firearms), there were curious coincidences in terms of the Tylenol poisonings that killed seven people in the Chicago area. For the past 13 years Arnold has worked on the loading dock of the Jewel Food warehouse in suburban Melrose Park. Tainted Tylenol was found in two Jewel supermarkets. Describing Arnold as a "closet chemist," police searched his house and turned up a suspicious-looking plastic bag of white powder, along with drug manuals that contained instructions for encapsulating cyanide. A lab test found the powder...
...terror that he inspired is likely to live on, and with altogether too good reason. There have been mass murders that were more brutal and claimed more victims. But there have been few if any so exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear, but who can now say that it is silly to dread that innocent bottle of capsules? -By George J. Church. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Adam Zagorin/ New York
...journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have 3 million people in this country walking around with controllable cancer. I'm just an average American who got cancer...