Word: suburb
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...dual nature unified in Weston's work was evident early in his life. He was 20 when he left his home in a Chicago suburb to visit a sister living in a quiet town near Los Angeles. Eventually he was married there, established a portrait business and fathered the four sons whom he loved fiercely all his life. But a part of him resisted domestication just as fiercely. He found his friends and lovers among the pioneer enclaves of the West Coast counterculture, attic dwellers who shared his penchant for vegetarianism and modern...
...grossing film in Australian history when it opened in the U.S. For the past six weeks, it has been the No. 1 box-office attraction in the U.S. (over $62 million so far). Hogan, 46, who lives with his wife and three of their five children in a Sydney suburb, was an all-round master of no trade until he caught on in 1972 as a comedian on Australian TV. Previously best known to Americans as Australian tourism's charming shill ("G'day"), he wrote Dundee and put up money to help make it. So what's next? Offers...
...most successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
Fred and Ginger they're not. On his best behavior, Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) pukes for pleasure, throws darts at idlers and smashes his head against the concrete walls of propriety. Then he meets Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb), a pug- faced groupie from a Philadelphia suburb, and starts living up to his name. As the defiantly incompetent bass player for the Sex Pistols, Sid became the working-class hero and elitists' toy of pre-Thatcher Britain. To the romanticizers of punk anarchy, Sid's abuse of his body, his buddies and his music gave evidence of a rock Rimbaud...
...with interlopers crowding their swimming pools and picnic tables, residents of the Detroit suburb of Dearborn voted last November to close the city's parks to outsiders. "Racism!" cried the local office of the A.C.L.U. and the Detroit chapter of the N.A.A.C.P., which promptly filed a suit against the town and kept the ordinance from being enforced. Dearborn (pop. 86,960) has fewer than 100 black residents, the N.A.A.C.P. argued, so only blacks would routinely be asked to show their city identification cards. "When they said 'residents only,' they were really talking whites only," said the Rev. Charles Adams...