Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the places hit: parts of Miami, Dallas, Detroit, Reno, suburban Philadelphia and a few towns in upstate New York. New Jersey Bell reported 25 acts of sabotage during the first three days of the strike, including a cut cable that disrupted service to a state police barracks and Fort Dix, a major Army base. Though direct evidence linking striking workers to the crimes is scarce, they are naturally the prime suspects. In one case, a striking Southern Bell employee and his grown son were arrested for pulling the wires out of a telephone box in Gainesville...
...movie, which is about as simple as they come, chronicles the summer vacation of a quintessentially WASPish upper-crust suburban Chicago family which--as sure as there is an alligator on Chevy's pink Polo shirt--runs amok...
Washington's election "is a message clear across the country," that reinforces "the potential power that Blacks can have," added Williams, who works at METCO, which arranges for inner-city Black students to study at suburban high schools
Form has a way of decaying into formalism, especially when the original form was antiformalist. Nowadays Japanese department stores carry rows of cases displaying tea bowls and caddies; new ones-never mind the old, which may cost more than a suburban house-bear price tags of $15,000. If one suggests that this is steep for a new teacup, however dense with sabi and wabi it may be, one is told that such objects are signed on the box by a noted living tea master. This imprimatur, a fabulously profitable extension of Marcel Duchamp's solitary act of declaring...
...sassy pertness that marks the style of many young, contemporary female vocalists has obviously impressed Seiko Matsuda, 21. She might well be the Olivia Newton-John of Japan. Seiko has what her countrymen describe as the girl-next-door look (if you happen to live in a suburban Osaka apartment complex) and, to be polite, a less than major lyrical talent. But since 1980, her twelve albums and 13 singles have brought in more than $125 million, boosting her own income from records to half a million dollars a year. Pressing on while her pressings are hot, she has starred...