Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inevitably, the political situation is explosive, and the guerrillas' numbers and supporters are rapidly multiplying. Somoza lives in fear of his subjects and of the guerillas' dexterity. Tanks and barricades surround the dictator's urban ranch. When he goes out for dinner, his mess steward prepares his food beforehand lest someone attempt to poison him. Any area Somoza visits is literally placed under military siege several hours before his arrival, and he is protected by 200 bodyguards armed with Belgian automatic firearms and knives. When he makes a public speech, Somoza speaks from behind an enormous protective contraption referred...
While the rural peasantry, urban workers and students have long been vocal in their support of the FSLN, the overtures of Nicaragua's "traditional" anti-Somoza sectors towards the front is indicative of the severity of the political crisis and of the Sandinistas' mass popularity. At present the FSLN included some 500 to 1000 armed militants, though it counts on the collaboration of hundreds of people throughout Central America...
...this implies being able to exercise all our responsibilities, and that has not been the case so far." To underscore their discontent, the Socialists voted against a supplementary budget requested by Lamblin. Last week, in retaliation, the Communists voted against a Socialist proposal to create a new department of urban affairs for the district...
Waits' specialty is the narrative tale. While a tenor sax begins some bluesy background, he lurches toward his microphone and growls his way into the urban back alleys. "Small change got rained on with his own .38/ and his headstone's/ a gumball machine," he sings, recalling a shooting he once witnessed on New York's 23rd Street...
Still, some experts think the trend away from mobility may be temporary, a product of recession and the wildly inflated housing market. John Pitkin, senior research associate at the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, argues that if housing starts had not declined in recent years, people would be leapfrogging from house to house at record rates...