Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Violent crimes in once tranquil rural areas also increased by 13% last year. "Many residents now live in fear of returning to an empty, isolated home," says Sheriff Robert L. Howard of Tompkins County in upstate New York. "The open-door policy of a decade ago is gone." The fact that almost everyone knows his neighbor has long been a protection in the countryside. Murders, muggings or shootings have not notably increased, but house break-ins and auto and farm-equipment thefts have risen dramatically. One definite trend: thieves from urban areas ranging hundreds of miles to loot rural homes...
...ensemble, clearly under-rehearsed, doesn't really gel, but there is nice work by lots of capable actors. Among Mayer's previous collaborators, Woodward Wickham is an unmagical magician and Andrea Portago a plebian Lady, but Francis Gitter has a compelling presence, rivetingly sad eyes, and moments of gaunt, tranquil beauty as Aladdin's mother, and Vincent Canzoneri is a wittily forthright Scholar Wu. As the Grand Wazir, David Prum reveals a precious comic style, a sublimely funny blend of ham and deadpan, and Jenny Cornuelle, a most impudently regal actress, is a flashing, mesmerizing Sultan. Maybe best...
...Salvador. The truth is that the repressive Salvadorean Government, enriched by American money and empowered by American weaponry, has embarked on a ruthless campaign of torture and death against its own people. The lie is that the violence begins with the revolutionaries. Russian-nudged troublemakers who are polarizing tranquil El Salvador...
...cope with anxiety and tension, millions of people reach for a Valium, a tranquilizer that has become the U.S.'s most widely prescribed drug. Now comes a report guaranteed to make users of the drug anything but tranquil. According to a Canadian physiologist, Valium may promote the growth and spread of cancer...
...then came Proposition 13, and inevitably behind it Ronald Reagan, the Kemp-Roth tax cut, an end to the Environmental Protection Agency, the death of the Equal Rights Amendment, a one-sided partnership between business and government. In short, the restoration of the same American dream that once made tranquil the sleep of Calvin Coolidge but haunted Herbert Hoover...