Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angry Chargé. Meanwhile, some 140 American families living in the suburban-style residential complex for USAID workers outside Vientiane were being held virtual prisoners. Pathet Lao and rightist troops brandishing potent-looking grenades were searching cars at the compound's gate and preventing nearly all Americans from leaving. At Prakhao, six miles north of Vientiane, students and police barricaded the entrance to a major USAID supply center...
...enjoy doing things with the kids. We horse around in the basement with this stuff and have fun." To show how much fun it is, Anderson teamed up with a fellow karate enthusiast, Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, for a board-breaking exhibition at the Capital Centre in suburban Maryland. Anderson, however, showed that punching lumber can be tougher than hitting typewriter keys. While a crowd of 7,000 looked on, the columnist karate-chopped a stack of wood -and cracked a bone in the knuckle of his little finger...
Luanda Angois--One week before the ship anchored in Luanda harbor, the city had convulsed in its second summer riot which left over a hundred people dead. From the ship you could see the black smudge in Luanda's tin-and-plywood suburban shack jungle that used to be four blocks of homes. Everywhere you went in Luanda there were jeeps, carrying soldiers, carrying guns. Portugal had been fighting a guerilla war since 1961 in Angola, a Portuguese colony since the 1500's. That war had one good result: the young Portuguese soldiers sent to Angola came back disgusted...
Your drama critic says that Glenda Jackson [May 5] has reduced Hedda Gabler's "Dionysian will to freedom" to a case of "suburban jitters." Is that a "travesty" or an updating? Hedda was trivialized before Ms. Jackson took her up. The "unfulfilled woman" has become a cliché, and that is indeed a tragedy...
...government's chief aim would be to restore farm production so that Cambodia might be "completely independent of all foreigners." Meanwhile, the ousted President of the fallen Cambodian government, Marshal Lon Nol, was quietly adjusting to a new life with his family in a $103,000 bungalow in suburban Honolulu. At Camp Pendleton, Calif., the man who replaced him briefly as head of state, Saukham Khoy, 60, disclosed that Lon Nol had been paid $1 million by his own government to leave the country on April 1. "It was a good buy," Saukham Khoy insisted last week. In Hawaii...