Word: suburbanitis
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...Both sitcoms' pilots were funded by the advertisers' group Family Friendly Programming Forum (F.F.P.F.), which sponsors "uplifting" series and also underwrote Gilmore Girls. (Two other F.F.P.F.-funded series will debut later in the season.) And both are gooier than a Krispy Kreme. Rules casts John Ritter as a suburban dad with two teen daughters (a hot one and a plain one), whose problems he solves in the pilot in two maudlin scenes. In one the plain daughter asks him, "Do you think I'm pretty?" and in the other he watches the hot one get thrown over...
...history of art has Pablo Picasso to thank for René Magritte. "You see, like many young painters in the 1920s I wanted to live in Paris," Magritte once told a pair of journalists visiting his picket-fence cottage in suburban Brussels. "And in Paris, there was this wild Catalan who was doing all there was to be done with technique. I could tell there wasn't going to be any technique left for the rest of us to invent. So that's when I decided I was going to paint ideas...
...change has been so swift and so pervasive that no simple explanation is possible. Maybe we didn't understand all the ramifications when we jumped on the low-fat bandwagon. We also failed to factor in suburban sprawl and six-lane expressways, school cafeterias and fast-food chains, movie theaters and television, advertisers and food processors. "We live in a toxic environment," says Kelly Brownell, director of the Yale University Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. "Physical activities have been engineered out of day-to-day life, and the food environment grows worse by the day. We took Joe Camel...
...department stores to support such a strategy. If Lauren wants to sell in Europe, he will have to build, staff and run his own stores. That's an expensive proposition, in part because the stores his European customers frequent are on expensive streets in the city centers, not in suburban shopping malls...
...everything green is rosy. To provide sunlight that reduces reliance on electrical lighting, environmentally conscious designers tend to favor open-plan workplaces over offices with doors that close. That can be good for nature, less good for quiet and privacy. And big suburban residential developers are not piling in yet. Reduced long-term energy costs, for instance, are not an important incentive to builders who plan to sell off the homes they build right away...