Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban picture windows into them. This remodeling often led to a complete transformation, to a peculiar, eclectic vernacular that lent variety to the uniformity of gray, Edward Hopper neighborhoods...
...gave $25,410 to the campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements of his coalition: suburban moderates and independents, coal miners and union members, many rural conservatives and blacks. On issues he was all but indistinguishable from Cole man. Their chief dispute was about which of them more clearly deserved to be called conservative...
...poem begins tranquilly, with recollections of childhood. The narrator's father is a real estate developer; his mother, in an upstairs bedroom of their pleasant suburban home, is dying of cancer. Here are the themes, announced at once: In the child's mind, place is a masculine proposition, a dubious promise of the good life sketched out in survey maps, prospective buyers, and the cheerful desolation of lots. The female propositions--death, repose--flower from the middle of that promise. Place, which is everywhere present and palpable, is not quite real; and death, which is not present and everywhere palpable...
...armored Brink's truck pulled up to the Nanuet National Bank near suburban Nyack, N. Y., shortly before 4 p.m. and two guards began loading $1.6 million in cash. Suddenly three armed men in ski masks jumped out of a red van and opened fire. One guard was killed instantly and the other critically wounded. The three bandits and an accomplice dashed off with the loot. "They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away...
...Adele Lojko, 59, the eight steps leading from the sidewalk to the front door of her suburban Boston home were a barrier as forbidding as the Great Wall of China. Often confined to a wheelchair with severe rheumatoid arthritis, she had to be carried up and down the steps. But now, after many years of needing assistance whenever she came or left, Mrs. Lojko proudly navigates that once insurmountable hurdle by herself, needing only a cane...