Word: suburbanism
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...book and a discussion with the audience. The presentation provided analysis and evaluation based on Cainkar’s book—“the first in-depth post 9/11 survey,” according to Cesari. Cainkar spoke on her methodology, having interviewed 102 Muslims in the suburban and metropolitan Chicago area after the incident as part of her research. According to Cainkar’s findings, “the anti-Muslim social climate had been there” since before 9/11, with the attacks just providing an open forum for the “defensive hate...
...attract more customers, the Talbots unwittingly launched a catalog business in 1948 by sending a flyer to 3,000 people whose names they had culled from a New Yorker subscription list. Their timing was perfect. As shopping habits shifted, Talbots became a staple for suburban women...
...perfect family foursome - Kate (Demi Moore) and Steve (David Duchovny) and their teen kids Jenn (Amber Heard) and Mick (Ben Hollingsworth) - motor toward their new suburban home, Steve smiles and says, "We are gonna do some serious damage in this town." Damage? Their upmarket neighbors instantly fall in love with the Joneses and all their cool stuff: the golf clubs, electronics, cosmetics. These nice folks have everything, and everyone else wants it all. Is it affordable? We'll worry about that later...
There are a number of reasons wildfires have grown more destructive in California and elsewhere in the West. As suburban sprawl encroaches on wilderness areas, more homes are in the path of the flames, and there are more people to set fires accidentally--or even on purpose. More than 50% of new housing in California has been built in severe-fire zones. Live near the flames and you'll get burned...
...movie has no stars, few recognizable faces. And unlike so many American films, which cast gentiles in Jewish roles (Imelda Staunton, for example, as the stereotype mother in Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, also about suburban Jews in the '60s), this one actually has ethnic-appropriate casting. The Jews here are sometimes broadly drawn - Larry's family slurps soup at a decibel level that even the Simpsons would find deafening - but they're fully assimilated. Nobody says, "Oy vey!" or talks shtick. If people answer a question with a question, the first would be Larry's plaintive "Why me?" when...