Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occupying force-the Israelis, who had troops spotted all over the area. "When I was transferred here nearly seven months ago," says Suro, "I hardly expected to cover the activities of the Israeli army." Even more startling, Stewart found the Israelis covering his activities. On his way to suburban Baabda, Stewart came upon an Israeli tank with an Israeli TV camera crew in tow. "They asked to interview me, and I agreed," says Stewart. "So I gave my impression of the siege for Israeli TV only hours after the bombardment...
...Hearst paper, however, won a new lease on editorial survival last week. Attorney General William French Smith approved a joint operating agreement that will combine the money-losing business operations of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer with those of its profitable rival, the Seattle Times. Challengers to the plan, including suburban papers and disgruntled P-I employees, pledged a court battle, but similar agreements are lawfully in effect in some 23 U.S. cities. Should the Seattle proposal hold up, it will preserve one more community as at least a one-and-a-half newspaper town...
...died, after a long bout with cancer, just three days before the summer solstice and the principal season of his imagination. Author John Cheever, 70, was a celebrant of sunlight, of manicured suburban lawns and shaved ice swimming in gin. Not all of his fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying...
...accounts of the case, what actually happened that morning in Bonnie's bedroom was to have less bearing on subsequent events than what had gone before. Bonnie, an affectionate, vivacious woman with a mane of red hair and a fine soprano voice, came from a well-to-do suburban family. Richard, an illegitimate child, was a product of the Los Angeles barrio. The lovers met at Yale, of which Bonnie's father was a prominent alumnus; she was a freshman and Richard was a senior. Despite the differences in their interests and background, and opposition from her parents...
Little League in Tenafly, N.J. reflects the contradiction and poignant absurdities of middle-class suburban life as well as any other ritual, including mass high school mating rites in the back hall near they gum and family dinner table discussions on the pros and cons of marijuana...