Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relentlessly and programmers understand them so well? And with all those Hollywood talent scouts and Silicon Valley headhunters hunting them down and signing them up, why would they even care if their parents understand them at all? Even the lonely losers of yesteryear are no longer locked in suburban basements playing Dungeons & Dragons; they are in downtown lofts uploading Web pages and concocting e-business ventures. There's hardly anyone left in our work force to mow the lawns and flip the burgers. Today's teenagers hold such a commanding position in our economy, it's only a matter...
...Stooges album now; it's violent and misogynist and abrasive; it's the sound of people desperate to feel anything, be it pain or hate or love or happiness, but willing to settle for anger and self-loathing. Because it's better than feeling nothing, than living in '70s suburban Michigan and not meaning shit to anybody, even yourself. That was Iggy 30 years ago; Iggy now is "Behind the Music." So now Iggy's on stage and 50 and performing the same songs he was then. Sure, the band's lousy and thrusts every single great song they perform...
This is not a large exhibition. The photos do not add up to more than twenty, and they fit in the hallway as one enters the library. The beautiful, haunting colors of these images shock the eye. One does not expect to see such magnificent prints hanging in a suburban library filled with kids reading Curious George...
...year 2025 many of us will no longer tolerate the scourges of 20th century suburban life: the marathon commutes, the maddening traffic jams, the pollution spewing from tailpipes and chimneys. We'll demand neighborhoods where the air is pristine and places to work, shop and play are close at hand...
Heimert was born in Oak Park, Ill., on Nov. 10, 1928. His family soon moved to nearby Chicago and finally to suburban Elmhurst where he attended York Community High School...