Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suburban Valley View school district outside Chicago, where F-A-L-L does not necessarily mean back to school, either. There, 1,675 elementary-school children are now on vacation. After their three-week break, the children will return to classes while another 1,675 of Valley View's 6,700 pupils take a holiday. So it goes throughout the year, summer included. Valley View uses its classrooms efficiently, dividing the children into four groups that have staggered schedules of nine weeks on and three weeks off. Thus the school has been able to absorb 1,760 new pupils...
Where Company--whose award-winning book was also written by Mr. Furth--dissected a series of Manhatten marriages with the coolness of stainless steel. Twigs looks at a corresponding sampling of suburban couples with the compassion of a family retainer. As the program counsels, "The play takes place in a variety of kitchens, on the outskirts of a major city, on the day before Thanksgiving." Not Thanksgiving itself, mind you, but the very day before. Furth's playlets approach individual resolutions only to resolutely back away. Although there is a stability in Peter Larkin's sets--the four kitchens themselves...
...sets out to even the balance. To look at Dorothy and Lou (A. Larry Haines) you'd swear they were a happily married couple (though perhaps a little dull) secure in the comfort of their sleakly cozy, big suburban home. Well then, look again. It's their twenty-fifth anniversary (which Dorothy superstitiously refuses to celebrate) and when questioned on his fidelity Lou suddenly admits to having in the past had two affairs. Two! I've also had two, Dorothy bluffs (or does she?). And the two return to each other's arms only by dropping the issue altogether...
...waiter at Rome's suburban restaurant I Fontanone says that he hopes he will not become a tourist attraction. But Raffaele Minichiello, the U.S. Marine who skyjacked a TWA jet 6,900 miles from California to Italy two years ago, has been getting something of a play in the Italian press with his first job since his release from jail in April. The great thing about the job is being always with people, says Mini, as the papers call him. "I'm very shy, and this is good...
Outside the Mark Hellinger, police patrolled the sidewalk at curtain time on opening night while pickets marched in protest. Queues of buses continue to disgorge paying customers who have bought seats in blocks: suburban klatsches of all sorts, whole schoolfuls of children, and Protestant, Catholic and Jewish lay groups, many of whom have heard Jesus Christ Superstar on records at church or temple. Simultaneously, religious groups, often from the same denominations as those flocking inside, proclaim outrage at the show and lament that it does not include Jesus' Resurrection. YOU'VE GOT YOUR STORY TWISTED! JESUS is THE LORD...