Word: surburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrested 25 seats from the Liberals in Ontario, including those of five federal cabinet ministers in surburban Toronto...
...Pine Manor--a women's school tucked away in surburban Brookline next to a country club--that held promise. Rumor had it that Harvard men were special there. The alleged magic of the school name might work. As Walter put it to himself in more rational terms, the probable benefits in companionship, when weighed against the necessary exertion to try for them, seemed to make the trip worth the gamble. He planned to make an expedition...
Each woman seeks to smash the mold she dwells in: Margot, whose career as a TV newswoman makes her a friend to all New York, but who passes her time in lonely solitude...Ellen, the epitome of the surburban housewite (complete with anorexic daughter) who conquers her boredom with a chain of lovers...Nikki, who takes the middle road and finds a New York career and a Connecticut family each jealous of the other...and Rachel, who serves her husband as social secretary until she grows tired of small-talk dinner parties and sleeping until noon...
...startling aspect of porn is its new social acceptability. Prodigious Linda (Deep Throat) Lovelace is an ordinary topic of surburban conversation and a cover subject for Esquire. Superstud Harry Reems, at 28 a veteran of 400 porn movies, has had to dodge his fans on the street. Porn Star Johnny Holmes has 37 fan clubs, and Writer Gay Talese says an esoteric cult has grown up around Leather Princess Bettie Page, whose photos "are collected and traded across the country like you and I did with baseball cards." Prestigious Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., honored Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione...