Word: suburban
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Sandwiched between Interstate 84 and Route 7, the lifelines of Connecticut's suburban sprawl, the 142-acre fairground was gobbled up by Wilmorite Inc., a Rochester, N.Y. , development firm. Wilmorite plans to construct one of New England's largest shopping malls, with more than a million square feet of commercial space. It will be called the Danbury Fair Mall, and the developers anticipate that it will draw nearly 35,000 customers a day, generate between $200 million and $300 million in sales annually, and stand in blacktop splendor as a testimonial to the properous future of Danbury...
...decades this city in the foothills of the Berkshire mountains was bypassed while suburban development created a gold coast among its neighbors to the south. A good two hours by commuter rail from New York City, Danbury was considered too far away, yet not quite rural enough for those seeking bucolic refuge from city life...
...party deferred the potentially divisive issue of choosing an official leader, but there was one surprising move: Williams will run for Parliament in an upcoming election in Crosby, a suburban Liverpool constituency that has sent Tories to Parliament since 1918. It will be an interesting test of the S.D.P.'s growing strength. Summed up Williams: "We have to take impossible risks...
...cultural misunderstanding. In a way, they were. Owning a house-a home, "the most lyrical of American symbols," Max Lerner once called it-began generations ago as one of the most basic aspirations. It was merely a hope then, not a sure thing. But some time during the long suburban idyll of the postwar years, the idea of owning a house came to harden into a kind of entitlement, a right, an inevitability. The baby-boom children of the broad American middle class-especially seduced by the illusion. Until now, through many headlong cultural confusions, they carried with them...
Americans still think of a home of their own as a free-standing one-family house (independence, shelter, family, the Little House on the Prairie still, even when the prairie has turned into Iowa City). One author, Jane Davison, called one-family suburban houses "an oppressive Utopian ideal, a spiritual imperative"the Levittown version of Ibsen's dollhouse. But economics and demographics, as well as feminist restlessness, intrude on the vision The size of the average American household has shrunk in 20 years from 3.3 to 2.75, a fragmentation that demands more housing units even at a moment when...