Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better." The staff also hopes that Murdoch will be willing to spend the vast sums necessary to automate the Post's outdated production system (a task that would probably involve buying off the paper's tough unions), expand the paper's weak suburban distribution and fatten the editorial budget...
Arizona Democrat Mo Udall will not be waving to crowds on Inauguration Day, and not just because he lost his bid for a presidential nomination. Spending his first full weekend this year at his suburban Washington house, Udall decided to make some overdue repairs to a faulty roof gutter. On his way aloft his metal ladder slipped, dumping the Congressman more quickly than a campaign promise. Udall broke both forearms and chipped a bone in his left wrist. "It's not been my year," lamented Mo later, both arms in casts. "All I need now is to get swine...
Quick-tempered and innocent of the finer social graces, Silverman never moved easily among the Ivy Leaguers and suburban types who run CBS. "Fred's idea of small talk is the present schedule, and his idea of important talk is next year's schedule," says one old associate. "You wouldn't want to sit next to him at a dinner party." Silverman was also relatively underpaid at CBS, at about $150,000 a year with no contract. So when ABC offered him $250,000 per annum in a three-year contract to turn it into...
Among the dozen candidates in the Democratic primary, Markey was generally perceived as the second most liberal, Jack Leff, a former state secretary of elder affairs, was known as the candidate who was farthest to the left, but also was viewed as having little chance of winning in the suburban, heavily working-class district. Markey, however, was thought to have a better chance of winning, and had drawn support from several local politicians who were well respected in liberal circles. Perhaps the most prominent Markey supporters were Representative Michael J. Harrington '58, a Democrat who represents the North Shore district...
...magazine section called "Beacon." Its first cover story suggested that Beacon would be governed by the same sort of news judgment that graces the Herald's front page. Entitled "The Girl Next Door is a Stripper," the article details the lifestyle of a woman who lives in North Shore suburban Beverly and works at the Two O'Clock Lounge in Boston's combat zone. Surprisingly--after its play on the cover--the article is fairly sensitive, but certainly did not enhance the newspaper's image in feminists' eyes...