Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both a plutocrat so reclusive that he is rumored to be dead and a daring literary forgery -- this time a "lost" Conan Doyle manuscript. Rendell has often said that she would prefer to concentrate on individual stories of twisted minds, but feels compelled by her fans to revive the suburban detective team of rumpled Reg Wexford and prissy Mike Burden. Having indulged her own preference to dazzling effect in her past seven volumes -- two published under her alternate byline, Barbara Vine -- Rendell now indulges readers in The Veiled One (Pantheon; 278 pages; $17.95). If the underlying appeal of most mysteries...
...haircut. Josh has always been small for his age. That bothers him but does not slow him down. Barely 5 ft. tall, he competes in a sport of giants: his ambidextrous dribbling helped him become starting point guard on the ninth-grade basketball team at Belmont High School in suburban Boston...
...Just Say No campaign of Nancy Reagan underscores the determination with which Americans, or at least some Americans, attempt to frame the drug problem as a national one, affecting all people in the same way. If a wealthy suburban teenager becomes addicted to cocaine, it is simply part of the drug problem. So too if inner-city ghetto kids end up killing each other over a crack sale. Just Saying No will do the trick...
...true that Jackson's famed "I Am Somebody" speech ("my mind is a pearl; I can do anything in the world") has proven to have a universal appeal. And his speeches at suburban high schools in which he asks those who have used drugs to admit it and come forward have been powerful...
Back in the 1960s, when spick-and-span, won't-the-future-be-fab urban schemes were still regarded with automatic enthusiasm by almost everyone, and when suburban malls were suddenly sucking shoppers away from central cities, the idea seemed perfect: build enclosed bridges -- skywalks! -- between the upper stories of downtown office buildings, stores and hotels, and nobody will ever have to go outdoors at all. Fortunately, most such future-a-go-go notions of the era -- moving sidewalks or 300-story apartment towers -- never came to much...