Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
Gloria, who changes her name to Witch Gliz while on the ritual lam from Mom's suburban Detroit subdivision, learns by doing and then recording her doings in a breezy diary. Sex, dope, kindness, generosity and communal living are good things because they make her feel good. Fortunately, imminent incest gives off bad vibrations before the big clutch...
...organic food supermarket, with well-stocked aisles and fleets of shopping carts. In Manhattan, at least, their customers come from all walks of life: long-haired young men with backpacks, wealthy parents with children, a few blacks and a sprinkling of the elderly. Many of them are operating in suburban shopping centers. Conventional supermarkets are also setting aside space for organic food departments, but most of the business is controlled by private entrepreneurs. One of them, Mrs. Mary Hatch, 65, left a job as a mortuary organist to open a store in San Ramon, Calif. Says...
...Dacca, army tanks and truckloads of troops with fixed bayonets came clattering out of their suburban base, shouting "Victory to Allah," and "Victory to Pakistan." TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who, along with other newsmen, was subsequently expelled from Pakistan, reported: "Before long, howitzer, tank artillery and rocket blasts rocked half a dozen scattered sections of Dacca. Tracers arced over the darkened city. The staccato chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated with grenade explosions, and tall columns of black smoke towered over the city. In the night came the occasional cry of 'Joi Bangla [Victory to Bengal],' followed...
...subject for his first American film is, promisingly enough, the flight of adolescents, who each summer descend on Greenwich Village to get away from their parents and out on their own. The film opens with a massive audition for potential folk singers, then switches to the resolutely suburban home of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Tyne (Buck Henry and Lynn Carlin), who come to the tardy realization that their daughter has skipped. Tyne and his best friend (Tony Harvey) set out to track her down. They stumble into a local bar, get loaded and reel home, where they have a generous...