Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anxiety was high. The suburban living room was still. The press conference finally flickered on the television set, live from New York. If Geraldine Ferraro was going to humiliate herself, and doom the Democrats' chances, at least Walter Mondale would be able to witness the dreadful spectacle at home, in Minnesota, alone except for his wife Joan and a couple of aides...
...back in the schools," he notes. "But I don't know if they knew they were voting to put in my peace workers." Says Federal District Judge Marvin Shoob, who last year ruled in favor of an A.C.L.U. challenge to religious meetings that were being held in a suburban Atlanta junior high school: "The bill will create more problems than it solves. I expect to see a rash of lawsuits...
...recording his pain he lends a keen zest to the act of living and writing. So this is what the novel has been! So this is what the novel can still be! Readers for whom contemporary fiction has meant obligatory searches for self-fulfillment or another go-around at suburban malaise may never be the same...
Currently on the firm's drawing boards or under construction are a courthouse for Bade County, in suburban Miami; a $150 million office-hotel-retail center in downtown Miami; a bank in Peru; a shopping center near Dallas; high-rise buildings for San Antonio and Manhattan; and several town-house clusters in Houston. One completed ten-unit group of the Houston town houses looks, characteristically, like something put together by a gifted child with an oversize Lego toy set: white triangular roofs, extruding yellow strips and even more extruding blue boxes. The houses are designed to provide young urban...
Since late June, Mondale's principal activity has been interviewing a parade of possible running mates invited to his $200,000, Frank Lloyd Wright-style home at the end of a winding private drive off Thrush Lane in suburban North Oaks, Minn. The meetings, now totaling seven, have settled into a routine...