Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scarfe started by sketching Ringo at the drummer's London suburban home, raced back to his Thames-side studio to construct a likeness on a wire frame with papier-mâché made of old newspapers soaked in paste. He followed the same process for all four. The figures are life-sized head-and-torso, with paper-and-glue eyeballs inserted from the rear of the framework, hair made of scissor-fringed strips of the London Daily Mail, and a final facial of thin paste and watercolor. Each unclad figure took two days to build...
...pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten-down husbands who, in comparison, begin to feel as tired and scruffy as a suburban lawn in a dry summer. The late John F. Kennedy, himself a swinging bachelor until 36, neatly framed both the stimulating and debilitating aspects of bachelorhood in a wry note that he wrote to Paul Fay in 1953: "I gave everything a good deal of thought-so am getting married this fall...
...Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar inflection...
...suburban San Mateo, Calif., Mrs. Charles Black is known as a busy housewife, civic worker and Republican fund raiser. To the rest of the world, of course, she will always be Shirley Temple, and when she cast her bonnet into the political ring last week there were the inevitable cracks about the curly-haired moppet boop-a-dooping into the U.S. Congress to the tune of On the Good Ship Lollipop. In fact, as the candidate said in no uncertain terms, "Little Shirley Temple is not running. Make it, Shirley Temple Black, Republican independent...
...standard: fathers get apoplectic if they hear that a daughter may be infected, but can't hide something like jubilance if it's a son-the attitude of 'I didn't know Junior had it in him.' " This same nurse found a middle-class suburban girl in her teens, a gonorrhea victim, who gave her the names of 14 different contacts she had had in the previous three months...