Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only sin may be eccentricity. It's sort of a lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant...
That Darman takes such pride in a pact unfamiliar to nearly all ordinary mortals -- rather than megadeals like the 1983 Social Security rescue or the 1986 tax-reform act -- shows still another of his several facets. He is a relentless future freak. In a town obsessed with the crisis du jour, he frequently peers at the far horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle...
...cost land the bricklayers acquired from the city, they are building modestly priced homes that first-timers buy with mortgages subsidized by the state Home Ownership Opportunity Program. Eleanor Santosuosso, 45, will soon move -- along with her husband, three sons and her mother, 75 -- into a four-bedroom town house that the family won the right to buy for $97,000 in a lottery last year. Says she: "Even my mother says she has always dreamed of owning a home. She figured it was an impossible dream. Now it has come true...
After conferring with her husband at Victor Verster Prison near Cape Town last week, Mandela canceled a planned press conference. Three days later, Mandela reportedly agreed to remove the bodyguards from her home. But the decision left unexplained whether she had been oblivious to the misdeeds of her football team or had encouraged them. Through most of her husband's 26- year imprisonment, Winnie Mandela seemed a true heroine, undiminished by loneliness, police harassment, detention and banishment. Now, even to old friends, she is a mystery...
...finally about to be dealt with, they trek to a makeshift Immigration and Naturalization Service post at the newly opened Port Isabel Processing Center, 25 miles away. Two weeks ago, angry local officials forced the shutdown of an INS office in Harlingen to rid the town of 500 refugees who have been shoehorned into overcrowded shelters and camps since last year. At Port Isabel, the refugees, clutching their meager possessions, line up to be fingerprinted and questioned by immigration officials -- and then wait some more to find out if they will be allowed to partake of the American Dream...