Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire-and-brimstone freak posing as mother in the case of one Carrie White. This specimen of faith-gone-fanatic seems straight out of Jonathan Edwards's congregation, dividing her time between spreading the Good Word among the suburban heathen and tormenting her daughter at the slightest hint of sin rearing its ugly head within Carrie. Mrs. White (played by Piper Laurie) has plainly left her mark on Carrie (played by Sissy Spacek); naive almost beyond belief, Carrie is utterly traumatized by the experience of her first period in the gym shower (as a high school senior, no less...
...learning last month that Kim faced punishment in South Korea, she asked Justice Department officials to grant him asylum. He phoned the FBI on Thanksgiving Day and was promptly whisked to a "safe house" outside the capital, while agents guarded his wife and three children at their home in suburban McLean...
...young heir to a multimillion-dollar fortune as the central figure in a murky kidnaping plot, a desperate defendant charging that the whole caper had been an elaborate fake, and there were allegations about a homosexual liaison carried out in locales ranging from the pool-house of a secluded suburban estate to gay bars in Manhattan...
Mell Stewart, then a suburban Los Angeles barber, was mysteriously summoned to the Beverly Hills Hotel in spring...
Despite injuries, racquetball is an excellent fitness game. The speed of the sport produces maximum exercise in minimum time; tennis players report a more vigorous workout in 45 minutes of racquetball than in several hours of tennis. So when commercial developers built the first racquetball clubs in suburban Chicago and Minneapolis four years ago, tennis players came streaming in from the cold. Today there are 510 court clubs-as distinguished from the old handball haunts-and more are under construction, mostly in the Midwest and the West; high real estate costs have limited development in the East...