Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...account for about 20% of his war chest. On his first visit to Queens, N.Y., last year, he was met by Greeks waving $20 bills. In addition, more than 30% of Dukakis' donations come from Massachusetts. Much of the rest is given by affluent, civic-minded professionals, urban and suburban, who are willing to write checks and line up friends to do the same. And no one is better at sowing and reaping that fertile ground than Farmer...
...York. Jackson's is the most riveting. Directed by hip, pixieish Filmmaker Spike Lee (She's Gotta Have It, School Daze), the stark, grainy, black-and-white commercial creates a feeling of tension and intensity. A stern image of Jackson shifts from 140th Street in Harlem to a placid suburban street in Tarrytown to suggest that drugs are "killing our children" in both neighborhoods...
...recent years has created a glut of stores, which has been a delight to consumers but a nightmare to the shopkeepers. A study by Sears, Roebuck, the No. 1 U.S. retailer (1987 sales: $28.1 billion), showed that in the past twelve years the amount of store space in regional suburban malls has increased by 95%. During the same period, the population grew by 12.9% and disposable personal income by 40%. Management Horizons, the market-research subsidiary of Price Waterhouse, estimates that the U.S. has 40% more retail capacity than its population needs...
Updike's letter of choice is "S", for sex. The switch reflects the irrelevance of sin in the modern world. Extramarital sex violates no norms, it's simply an act. The novel takes Sarah Worth out of a suburban sterility as arid as any Arizona desert and into a empty series of heterosexual and homosexual love affairs. We are even provided with an actual transcription of her first sexual encounter with the Ahrat, courtesy of a miniaturized tape recorder fastened to her breast. The endless repetition of these erotic adventures strips them of any moral aspect...
...half hour on Monday nights on the NBC-TV network sometimes hits the Top Ten in the Nielsen ratings (just like ours, except recorded electronically instead of with marshmallows and thumbtacks) and is playing in about 50 countries. The show is the story of my life in a typical suburban household -- working dad, nonworking mom, teenage daughter just out of braces, chirpy son who dresses up as a vegetable for the school play, and yours truly, the alien who has to hide in the laundry room when anyone comes to call. My Saturday-morning cartoon reminiscences about Melmac have become...