Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts state legislature passes the appropriate bill before the end of the year, the world's largest museum of contemporary American art and architecture may soon be located in the Berkshire town of North Adams, thanks in large part to the efforts of nearby Williams College...
Director Joe Giani presents Jesus and his followers as the punks and leafleters who hang out by Out of Town News, and the premise works extremely well. Jesus Christ wears penny loafers, the Jerusalem Temple sounds like the stock market and Mary Magdalene sports an "I Love Jesus" button...
...decade" to define the narcissistic '70s. Plutography is to money what pornography is to sex, explains the 56-year-old pioneer of the New Journalism, emphasizing that "today it is impossible to be too ostentatious." In Manhattan, where Wolfe and his wife, daughter and son occupy a four-story town house in the coveted East 60s, he notes that one of the latest examples of conspicuous display is the stretch limousines lined up in front of what he calls "this week's restaurant of the century." Inside these land yachts, the young and newly rich slurp drinks while waiting...
...Midlothian (pop. 7,500) learned Moore's secret: he was really George Raffield Jr., 21, a rookie officer working undercover for the local police department to ferret out drug use among the 765 students. On Oct. 24 his body was discovered in a clump of cedar trees near town, a .38-cal. bullet hole in the head. "His cover was blown, and he was murdered because of it," said a Texas Ranger investigating the case...
...city council responded to pleas from City Manager Chuck Pinto and Police Chief Roy Vaughn by authorizing $10,000 for a larger community narcotics operation. "We had suspicions that things were going on," explained Pinto. In July Raffield, a short, muscular ex-police dispatcher from a neighboring town, was hired and assigned to undercover work...