Word: island
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black alienation and crime. Cecil, 18, a slender youth with a black leather cap, leans against the doorway of the Brixton unemployment office on Coldharbour Lane and says, "I wouldn't work in this country. I'd rather be a crook." A Jamaican who left the island when he was three, Cecil has not held a job since he graduated from school last year. Unable to find anything paying more than $50 a week, he has had repeated brushes with the law, and plans to return to Jamaica when he has enough cash. "Look at the streets here...
...that much new oil can be found in drilled-out America. The authors largely write off as impractical the attempts to recover left-behind oil in old wells. Natural gas, in their view, also has a dim future because proven reserves have been steadily shrinking. Even before Three Mile Island, notes the book, nuclear power was declining. Finally, mining, transportation and pollution problems rule out big increases in coal production...
Johansen's credentials for such a calling include some years in parochial school dodging the discipline of the nuns and four years of public high school in Staten Island, a blue-collar enclave that most New Yorkers regard as little more than the place the ferry stops before it turns back toward Manhattan. Johansen made that ferry trip a lot, voyaging into Greenwich Village at an age when most kids are sweating out the junior varsity cuts...
...Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time to time. In one early scene, for instance, Hack is overpowered by hired killers on a Mexican island; Ladd and Smith, of course, rescue her before the final commercials. Hack at least needed no lessons in how to look stunning when the Angels pause for cherubic cheesecake...
...fatuous Hollywood political chatter. " 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' some one said to me at dinner not long ago, and before we had finished our fraises des bois, he had advised me as well that 'no man is an island.' " The White Album is full of the bizarre details, the eye for blinding weirdness, that made Slouching Towards Bethlehem one of the purest leftover artifacts of the '60s. Didion again collects clippings of American death trips: the brothers who bludgeoned Ramon Novarro, for example; and the 26-year...