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...Central question to ask is why people liked the film. The producers ofEasy Living launched a massive promotional campaign aimed at affluent, urban consumers, so it's clear who they expected the film to attract. It it plausible, then, to characterize the film as an appeal to white collar escapism? Or does it appeal more to blue collar aspirations? What values represented in the film were shared by its audience? What made this fantasy world so attractive to the movie-going public...
Good Shepherd Church of Alexandria, Va., was once the embodiment of suburban Catholicism. The cavernous cinder-block building itself resembled a supermarket plunked down amidst an affluent neighborhood by some careless zoning board. The nine-year-old parish's membersinp list, drawn largely from the close-cropped and constantly changing ranks at the Pentagon and nearby Fort Belvoir, had initially been compiled from the local welcome-wagon files...
...pervasive economic malaise is certainly democratic in its sweep. Almost everybody-whether affluent or poor, young or old, urban or rural, white, black or brown-rightly feels a little or a lot less well off than several years ago. Some examples...
...Brazil until 1970. Since then, there have been increasingly widespread epidemics reaching a peak during the winter month of June. Normally concentrated among slum children, the disease this year has struck a large proportion of adults. It also appears to have crossed the class barrier, attacking the more affluent residents of São Paulo. Some doctors have suggested that the 1974 microbes may be mutants that are a menace to those handling the dead. So as to reduce the number of those exposed to possible infection, at least one hospital in São Paulo is placing victims...
...linguistically memorable day at Ebbets Field in the 1930s, when Dodger Pitcher Waite Hoyt was hit by a ball, a spectator jumped up on the bleachers and shouted out, "Hurt is hoyt!" Over the years, as they grew more prosperous, New York's Irish scattered into the affluent suburbs. Blacks and Puerto Ricans have all but taken over such areas as Williamsburg (formerly Williamsboig) and Greenpoint (Greenpernt) in northern Brooklyn, where Brooklynese was born. At the same time, generations of Brooklyn schoolteachers struggled more or less successfully to hammer normal English into their pupils' heads...