Word: suburb
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...Civil War (Confederates) and the Holocaust (Schindler's List). "City bad! Country good!" is the message never far from the heart of Kate's story. Were it not for the range of his talents, the temptation would be to compare Keneally to Larry McMurtry, the elegiast of the American suburb and Texas history. Both can go over the top and still keep readers asking "What next?" Especially Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting the basic tricks of the trade. Never show a stick of dynamite that does not go off in a later...
...that is not what makes Wynn interesting. He is on a mission to gentrify gambling in America, cleansing it of its associations with high life and low life while delivering it to a suburb near yours as the innocuous extension of the middle-class weekend outing. Wynn's gambling has neither neon, push-up bras nor black-tie croupiers from the French Riviera. In fact it is not even called gambling. "I'm in the recreation business," he insists...
...People seem to want to turn what is pretty much a city neighborhood into a suburb," Defandorf said...
Those popular guys now find themselves in the middle of an uproar over teenage values that has spread beyond the conservative, middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Lakewood. While denying charges ranging from sexual molestation to rape, the group of 20 to 30 youths has proudly owned up to a competition in which they scored points each time they had a sexual conquest. Their seeming lack of regard for the girls they were scoring upon shocked many Lakewood residents, as did the widespread perception of the boys as heroes and the girls as troublemakers. The debate set men against women...
Slapdash pleas are sometimes less brutal than the farcical trials that can result when ill-prepared lawyers are thrown in over their heads. In 1983 a man named Victor Roberts and an accomplice stole a car and drove to an Atlanta suburb hunting for a house to burglarize. Posing as insurance salesmen, they entered the home of Mary Jo Jenkins. A skirmish ensued and a gun went off, shooting Jenkins through the heart. H. Geoffrey Slade, a lawyer for 13 years, was assigned to handle the capital case. When he realized he was in over his head and requested...