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...conventional wisdom, but in the early '60s it was crazy talk, downright revolutionary, particularly coming from a respected young Princeton graduate and Rome Prize winner. By the time his book was published in 1966, Venturi had actually built a house illustrating his alarming, thrilling ideas in a Philadelphia suburb, for the perfect client: his well-to-do socialist mother. As with much of his work since, he took the debased, muddled classical references residually present in most suburban houses and made them self- conscious, explicit, arch. The house was two decades ahead of its time. Imagine a Pop artwork from...
...former Hillary Rodham grew up in Park Ridge, a Chicago suburb, where her father owned a textile company. She earned every Girl Scout badge, pulled a wagonful of sports equipment to her job at the park every summer, was elected president of her high school class and earned so many honors that her parents recall "being slightly uncomfortable at her graduation." She organized circuses and amateur sports tournaments to raise money for migrant workers. "Mothers in the neighborhood were amazed at how they couldn't get their boys to do much, but Hillary had them all running around," says...
...Wagner cannot be heard in Israel; the Symphony of Rishon Lezion, a Tel Aviv suburb, violated the taboo two years ago, to little or no outcry. And it is not as if the Nazis didn't turn the works of other composers, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Liszt's Les Preludes, into political totems as well. Yet Wagner's unique resonance continues to sound, louder and more forcefully than that of the others...
...Families will be thinking about their indebtedness at the end of the four years, and that will affect decision-making," said Charles V. Khoury, director of guidance at the only high school in Ridgewood, a New Jersey suburb...
...hell-bent entrepreneurs, that just calls for more persistence. When former AT&T sales executive Mary Poldruhi wanted to open a restaurant serving East European fare in Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, she turned to the telemarketing skills she had acquired at the telephone company. Poldruhi, who is of Polish descent, made cold calls to all the doctors and lawyers listed in the phone book whose surnames ended with such suffixes as -ski and -cz. She raised $240,000. "I would have called every -ski in the U.S. and Poland if I had to," she says. Her new restaurant...