Word: suburbanitis
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DYSPEPTIC DUO: Two satiric novels of suburban and cubicle life...
...painful yet delightful flashback scenes, wonderfully adept at tugging on adolescent girl anxieties, set the tone for 13 Going On 30, a Big story of suburban New Jersey girl Jenna Rink’s ascension into kitten-heeled city-girl life with the help of a boy, a wish, and a “seven minutes in heaven” game gone wrong...
Looking back over delay the Library has encountered mainly because of the choice of an urban location, it is easy to speculate that the Library would have been better off in a suburban setting, with plenty of parking and picnic grounds. Yet somehow, isolating Kennedy away from people's lives, making the Library a day-trip into the country, would be a less fitting memorial than a complex situated in Cambridge...
Looking back over delay the Library has encountered mainly because of the choice of an urban location, it is easy to speculate that the Library would have been better off in a suburban setting, with plenty of parking and picnic grounds. Yet somehow, isolating Kennedy away from people's lives, making the Library a day-trip into the country, would be a less fitting memorial than a complex situated in Cambridge...
...Republican strategy this year appears to be extreme hardball. Yes, there have been efforts to reach out to constituencies like suburban women (through the Bush education initiative), senior citizens (the Medicare prescription-drug bribe) and Latinos (immigration reform). But the dominant message coming from the White House is, We're right, we don't make mistakes, and anyone who disagrees better watch out. The essential Bush foreign, fiscal and social policies represent nothing less than a new political philosophy: Utopian conservatism, a messianic faith in the power of democracy to transform the Middle East and the power of tax cuts...