Word: urbanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pipeline itself, with its adjoining highway for trucks and its walkways for caribou, came from our Alaska stringer, Jeanne Abbott, who has traveled its entire length. She says the pipeline has transformed her state, making "the old casual frontier style a quaint backdrop to a fast-paced urban way of life...
...township with a mixture of brutality and bold authority that both fascinates and frightens their elders. These junior enforcers have capitalized on their legacy as the heirs of the martyred youths who led last June's upheaval, and on a general sense of despair and futility within the urban community. "We may still be children," one of their leaders says, "but politically we have been through very much." The Children are now seeing to it that almost everyone else in Soweto follows their lead...
...think, talk and, indirectly, lead. Mostly they are bitter and angry. Their bitterness is directed not only at the government but at the liberals, who are seen as more hypocritical than the Afrikaner. When Diamond Tycoon Harry Oppenheimer and other leading, well-meaning white businessmen set up the Urban Foundation to help improve the quality of life of black Africans, the reaction of many black spokesmen was that this would simply ameliorate apartheid rather than change anything basic. Says one black African editor: "Oppenheimer wakes up one morning after a good dream and gives a million dollars...
...formidable, determined, often brutal, well-armed police state. Apart from being put in jail for a variety of reasons, people may be "banned"-restricted to a certain location, prohibited from attending meetings (including church) or going to school. Such intimidation works. So far, there have been few signs of urban guerrilla action or terrorism. There have been some individual work stoppages, and it is generally assumed that a one-week strike of the black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid...
...Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women in film, a new "gymnastics fever" and photograph collecting. "We want to be the national journal of civilized urban life," says Editor Otto Fuerbringer, 66, a former TIME managing editor who was hired as a consultant last year to remake Horizon for its new owner, Engelhard Hanovia, Inc., and was then invited to stay. "Our aim is to stimulate those with the talent and time to participate in the diversity...