Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this musical is like watching a marauding shark becalmed in a suburban swimming pool. As an actor, Nicol Williamson radiates a sense of imminent danger, mercurial passion and magnetic authority in such a way that he could be every inch the awesome monarch that Henry VIII was. But in Rex he is submerged in a book that swamps that masterful Tudor reign with research-soaked tedium...
...third entry in the race, fair Wellesley, did not fare very well at all. In fact the suburban crew, unused to the heavy traffic of the Charles River, could not even make it out of the basin, as its shell collided with a sailboat early...
Still, reporters thought Carter's views needed to be clarified. Carter was asked how he felt about federal pressure for low-income housing in the suburbs. That decision should be left to local governments, he said, adding that he supported local requirements that new suburban housing be "compatible with the quality of homes already there...
...Greeks are Arabs wearing pants." Even Athens' shops and hotels can compare with Beirut's. Airline, telephone and telex service is excellent, and there is still a sufficient amount of modern office space. True, prices are high; the rent for much desired villas with swimming pools in suburban Kifissia has doubled recently, to about $1,000 a month. Even so, points out one recent corporate settler, Edwin P. Hoffman, senior vice president of Citibank, "Athens has the schools and housing that we require. It's a pleasant city...
...catalytic agent full of "power of positive thinking" jargon, he soon reduces everyone either to tears or hysterics. Unwittingly, he unmasks torpedoed marriages, a joyless adulteress (Cheryl Kennedy), blasted careers, lacecurtain carnage. When Colin, played with demonic dexterity by Richard Briers, finally leaves, one of the survivors utters a suburban epitaph: "Nice to sit with your friends now and again. Nice...