Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bloomingdale's takes pride in introducing chic fashions to trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate that the department store was the first in town to sell the latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour...
EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. Three fellows new in town meet the women of their fevered dreams. Except the guys are off a spaceship, and they've landed in the San Fernando Valley. Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum star in this fizzy, frizzy musical comedy...
Getting Wright to walk the plank -- with dignity, if possible, but above all with speed -- seemed to be Congress's best hope of restoring its tattered reputation. When the Speaker and his wife Betty left town for a Memorial Day vacation in an undisclosed location, where Wright was expected to prepare a departure-with-dignity speech, Democrats quickly began speculating openly about his successor, no longer so squeamish about reading the will before the funeral...
...light out, looking for locals with twangy accents, and it's still a fine, fresh idea. There is plenty of West to go around, it turns out. Frazier pokes about in the Plains states, to the east of the Rockies, letting his own mild adventures and rummagings in small-town museums drift into recollections of the old days. "Indians thought the white men's custom of shaking hands was comical," he reports, enchanted by this odd information. "Sometimes two Indians would approach each other, shake hands, and then fall on the ground laughing...
...crime has convulsed Glen Ridge, a well-off community of 7,700 that likes to think of itself as a large family. The girl has known at least two of the youths since grammar school; she and the accused are white. The alleged assailants are among the town's favored sons: Kyle and Kevin Scherzer, 18- year-old twins, and Peter Quigley, also 18, are stars of the football team. The two other youths who were arrested were under 18 at the time of the attack, and their identities have not been released. Among the eight onlookers: the 18-year...