Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
...heirs from your mind; rethink Jane; forget Boy; above all, abandon hope that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed up Tarzan: nothing less than the creation of a mythic figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian...
Sottsass created Memphis in late 1980, he says, to "get rid of institutional rhetoric." The replacement? What he calls "suburban slang." The name appropriately comes from rock: Bob Dylan's Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again happened to be playing the night Sottsass crystalized the project with half a dozen young followers. His oddly hued, plastic-laminate-covered Carlton room divider, whose bookshelves extend at eccentric angles, is intentionally haphazard-looking. Since books tend to settle on an incline anyway, reasoned Sottsass, why force them to stand at attention? With a core committee in Milan, Sottsass...
...afternoon, I rode the subway to the perimeter of Leningrad. There, I felt more at ease with the society; it, in fact, seemed almost suburban to me. A park echoed with the play of busy children. Their mothers sat, watched their activies and talked. This playground had no merry go round or swingset; a train, a play house, a turtle on which to climb...
...days later at 2 a.m., the burglar alarms went off. I plowed into Maggie's room, and noticed a huge white van parked outside the house. Having heard enough stories about suburban robberies, I immediately called my friends the police...