Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...families but partially evacuated before it was struck, city officials have already counted 215 dead and 257 wounded-with many more missing or still buried in the rubble. French observers in North Viet Nam claimed that close to 1,000 civilians are dead or wounded in the suburban town of Thai Nguyen...
...targets bombed with crosshair precision-come together only when maps of the military targets are laid over maps of the cities and towns of North Viet Nam. Then it is at once evident that many of those targets lay smack in the middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next...
HELP! The kittens are climbing the Christmas tree!" The tree sways dangerously in the suburban Baltimore apartment; ornaments fly in all directions. Giggling ecstatically as they call to their mother, Andrea Rander, the girls-Lysa, 12, and Page, 6-streak across the living room and pluck the month-old kittens, Gamma, Alpha and Fluffy, from their perches in the tree. Then the evening news flashes on the TV screen. Andrea and her daughters lock into place, as if in pantomime of a film freeze frame. Henry Kissinger has met again in Paris with his North Vietnamese counterpart...
...leavetaking was a shabby affair. The streets around his suburban Buenos Aires home were virtually deserted as his motorcade of 20 cars pulled out for Ezeiza Airport. Instead of the tens of thousands who were turned back by troops ringing the airport when el lider returned to Argentina, less than 200 were on hand for his departure...
...anything about the problem unless performers are allowed to bring back the scores and the great art of improvising. Ideally, they should have the abandon of the jazz saxophonist or the Serbian bard hatching his epic. Another solution, it might be added, would be luring composers from their suburban comfort to play their own music. Until then, he notes, one thing that can alleviate stage fright is "the absolute certainty of a botched performance." In coming upon a piano with a sticky pedal or a defective hammer action, says Rosen, "one is reduced to doing one's best...