Word: teaneck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vivid similarities between author and protagonist often make it difficult to separate the fictitious from the actual. When Zuckerman's hated critic, Milton Appel, accuses him of capitalizing on the ethnic eccentricities of Teaneck, N.J. and the lower East side, we cannot help but think of Roth's own battles with critics and his New Jersey origins...
...Taylor Teaneck...
...sure this will accomplish anything other than awareness," David Shein, a high-school junior from New Jersey representing the Frisch School in Teaneck, said this week...
...were a record 242 strikes in the 1979-80 school year. The following year there were 191; so far this fall there have been about 65. Only some 20 strikes are still in progress today, and few seem likely to continue for long. A 19-day strike ended in Teaneck, N.J., last week after State Superior Court Judge Sherwin Lester leaned on both sides. He ordered teachers back to work and, when they refused, began commandeering school buildings for use as makeshift jails to confine groups of teachers during the day. When an intransigent board of education failed to produce...
...done with amateurs," boasts Mickey Spillane, detective novelist and sometime pitchman for Miller Lite beer. Spillane concedes, however, that the high jinks that accompany the filming "would drive regular actors up the wall." Last week Spillane and pals gathered at a bowling alley in Teaneck, N.J., to shoot another of the award-winning spots. Those present included Comedian Rodney Dangerfield, Actress Lee Meredith, Boston Celtics President Red Auerbach, former Oakland Raiders Coach John Madden, ex-Baltimore Slugger Boog Powell and retired New York Jet Matt Snell. Off-camera the jocks disputed the merits of their various sports. "The baseball people...