Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Large advertisers, meanwhile, began spreading their dollars around, buying space in both city and suburban papers and time on television. Instead of taking ads in all city papers, they gravitated to only one, either because it had a larger circulation or more affluent readers. Even a small disparity between papers-the Inquirer's circulation is only 27,000 higher .than the Bulletin's-could cause a stampede of advertisers...
Thomas Berger's novel was a suburban Walpurgisnacht, in which a sedentary couple are driven beyond distraction by the bizarre boorishness of the folks next door. For this to work in the movies it must be played either with the film equivalent of Berger's fastidious prose-Ordinary People in apocalyptic dead pan-or with the cauterizing fury of a Bunuel satire. A ham-fisted director like John G. Avildsen (Rocky) need not have applied. Nor were Bill Conti's services required: his score sounds like a Spike Jones symphony of klaxons, sassy trombones, Bronx-cheer kazoos...
...hearing a big boom one night and having a bad dream about it. The major complaint in his stately neighborhood was the stink from the nearby offal factory. Now the complaint is more topical. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert Bradford, M.P, was shot to death in a suburban community center not far from where Jonathan lives. Bradford's daughter Claire, 7, is Jonathan's playmate. When the incident was explained, Claire had difficulty comprehending why her father had to go to heaven to talk to people when there are so many people to talk to down here...
...paper, the time to read one before work and an appealing (to the advertisers) level of disposable income. Also, by and large, they have the attention span and curiosity to seek out more in-depth coverage than television currently provides. Many in this group--particularly the upwardly mobile, increasingly suburban children of the baby boom--also gobble up consumer/fashion information, and papers like The Times have been happy to oblige. The papers find the arrangement congenial because that kind of "news"--called "Living" or "Weekend" in The Times, or "At Home" in the Boston Globe--generates considerable advertising revenue...
...E.S.P. Nor is it X-ray vision. Dr. Arthur Lintgen, 40, a suburban Philadelphia physician, cannot explain his bizarre talent. But he has it: the ability to "read" the grooves on a phonograph record and identify the music on it-with the label and other identifying marks covered, of course. Lintgen simply holds a disc flat in front of him, turning it slightly this way and that and peering along its grooves through his thick glasses. After a few seconds he calmly announces, as the case may be, ''Stravinsky's Rite of Spring," or "Strauss...