Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looks as approachable as a Junior Chamber of Commerce booster. His face settles quite naturally into a smile, while his waistline suggests a temporary breakdown in an otherwise vigorous selfdiscipline. Though he neither drinks nor smokes, Ehrlichman and his wife are fond of throwing family barbecues at their suburban Virginia home. Among friends, Ehrlichman displays a penchant for puns and a dry sense of humor. Last year he told the audience at a Women's National Press Club dinner that he works in the White House because it was the only way he could get off the Washington Beltway...
Frustrated Martyr. The renewed activism, coming in the wake of student protests in Paris and suburban schools as well as a series of bombings and fires, was too much for the government. At a Cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin urged that the 2,000 member Proletarian Left Movement be suppressed for plotting to "destroy and overthrow the constitutional regime and to incite citizens to arms against the authority of the state." The government quickly complied. The following day the two editors of the Proletarian Left's newspaper were convicted and sentenced to prison, one for eight months...
...must recognize that each of us must give up something to save the nation. 1 may have to pay more taxes. The corporate president may have to spend more on pollution control. The suburban resident may have to temper his racial prejudices. The wage earner may have to loosen up access to his union. We have it in us to be a better people. It is a matter now of summoning the will...
Nevertheless, Georgie has been having some qualms about mixing sport and the sporting life. In July, he says, when he moves into a new $72,000 split-level in suburban Manchester, he is "going to spend a lot of time alone." Well, sort of alone. The Georgie girls will still come and go, but he vows that he will never marry. "Unless," he says, "Bardot asked me. She wouldn't, would...
There are occasional flickers of satiric hilarity, but too many of the jokes seem feeble and rather desperate. The best episode in Hi, Mom! is a re-creation of a guerrilla-theater confrontation between a troupe of angry black actors and a group of gullible suburban honkies who just have to see what being black is like. The episode is tense, electric, terrifying, and suggests that next time around, Moviemakers De Palma and Hirsch might forsake satire for drama. "Promising" is still the word for them...