Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leap into a market segment where it is not represented: the fast-growing sport-utility line. Some 732,000 sport-utility vehicles, including such models as the Jeep Cherokee, Ford Bronco II and Chevy S-10 Blazer, were sold last year, offering a new kind of competition to the suburban station wagon. That total could reach 1 million...
...mass transit in Dallas, where the car is king, is something like selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair may be next...
Donald Westlake wrote the screenplay for this effectively suspenseful and brutal twist of America's suburban search for T.V. family bliss. No familial unit ever had it as good or as saccharine smooth as the Brady Bunch, but the Stepfather, leaving a trail of bodies and abandoned identities behind him, is set on making media myth a reality...
...gore is minimized, applied selectively and effectively only to establish the grotesque split in the Stepfather's personality. The film opens on a green-lawned, oh-what-a-day suburban street: paper boy, sprinklers, honeydripping Golden Grahams sunrise--the works. Dramatic cut to a steam-filed, murky bathroom in which stands the Stepfather, blood dribbling down his bearded face. The camera follows his bloody hands as he clips his straggly hair, shaves the beard, and pops in some green contacts...
...Aspiring suburban housewife seeks aspiring young urban professional. I will iron your oxfords if you take me out for sushi...