Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the government claimed that no more than 8% of the work force responded to Fernandes' call, militiamen had to be mobilized to man emergency rail services. In Bombay, at least, the strike appeared far more effective than the government claimed. The 1,278 suburban trains that normally carry almost 3 million passengers daily were idle, keeping almost 50% of the city's workers away from their jobs. In many areas, even where minimal train service has been maintained, food prices have jumped 40% to 50% as housewives hoarded such staples as rice and cooking oil in fear...
...three children exhibit tremendous benefits. They show far more independence and self-confidence than we see in children who attended private or suburban schools. Their national test scores are high and their values all we hoped...
...linked to a plot to topple Sadat. As Egyptian officials tell it, a 38-year-old fanatic named Saleh Abdulla Sareya (a Palestinian with an Iraqi passport) led a group of youths armed only with knives in an attack against the Egyptian army's Technical Military Academy in suburban Cairo. They expected to encounter no resistance, to capture the academy's arsenal of weapons and vehicles, and then move on the headquarters building of the Arab Socialist Union where Sadat was giving a major speech. As implausible and bizarre as it sounds, Sareya apparently intended to arrest Sadat...
...brick bungalow in Oklahoma City, three blocks from the capitol. Though he prints a few articles from unpaid contributors, he fills most of the twelve-page paper himself. His wife (and co-publisher) Helen keeps the books and stuffs papers into mailing envelopes at their modest suburban home. He often warns subscribers to "worry about a newspaper when it earns enough for the publisher to join the country club." That is not something that Troy's readers need fear. The Observer lost $18,000 during his first year, finally edged $9,800 into the black in 1973. Troy makes...
THOUGH CENTERED around the four well-to-do Bengalis, Days and Nights in the Forest does not lose sight of the mass of the Indian people. The four men are the Indian equivalents of American suburbanites, but in India there is no suburban isolation. Cross-caste encounters occur everywhere, and these make the film far more telling than the many documentaries that have simplistically contrasted starving millions with polo-playing aristocrats. Each encounter reveals the men to be torn between the Indian society still found among the poor and the increasingly pervasive Western society. The men in the film have...