Word: suburb
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...more than any other country headliner, Brooks encapsulates most of the / complexities of the baby boomers. He was raised in an Oklahoma City suburb, where he listened to Kiss and Queen, and graduated from Oklahoma State, where he was a middling jock and an advertising major. He hides his receding hairline under his Stetson, and once said, "I'd rather be like Schwarzenegger -- perfect teeth, perfect body, full head of hair." He can be a pop nostalgist who croons old Billy Joel songs, a country nostalgist who traces his lineage to the backwoodsy George Jones, or a rock nostalgist...
Here it is, almost a quarter-century later, and Garth Brooks, 30, is still the star of Funny Night, a family ritual from his childhood in Yukon (pop. 21,400), the Oklahoma City suburb where young Troyal Garth Brooks would knock himself out trying to outshine his sister and four brothers. Only difference now is that the venue's gotten bigger, and the stakes higher. Dramatically higher. Today this guy with the excess longitude under the chin is the new face of pop music...
...this bill is censorship," says Marilyn Fitterman of the New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women. "It takes the onus off the criminal and blames the publishers and artists." Nancy Ryan of the Cambridge women's commission, which opposed a similar measure introduced in that Boston suburb, argues that "the men who did these acts would have done them without pornography." Others contend that the evidence linking pornography to systematic violence is more anecdotal than statistically solid...
...huge spindle stacked with wrecked cars is in Berwyn, another Chicago suburb...
...most shots, the makers of Wayne's World used a Southern California suburb, a fact which explains the presence of palm-trees in the middle of Illinois...