Word: suburbanitis
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Several councilors said that they were displeased by the proposed move because it would remove Cambridge from a district made up of several other urban communities and instead place it together with many suburban communities...
Councillors worried that many of the suburban communities would not share the same concerns as Cambridge, such as providing more affordable housing or improving urban public schools, and thus Cambridge would be unable to have these issues addressed in Washington. They noted that Capuano has done a good job addressing these issues since he began representing the district...
...live in the suburbs of New York or Boston, traveling into the city is a regular, if not daily, occurrence. This is not the case with Detroit. There is a widening rift between the suburbs and the city due to expressway development, urban and suburban sprawl and age-old racial tensions. With a new freeway system that drew people out of the city and made commuting from the suburbs easier, the Eisenhower administration’s new home deals, the city’s growing African American population and the ’67 riots, many white people moved...
...film's most startling and depressing images is a telephoto shot of a suburban street clogged with fast-food joints and retail shops; it could be a mug shot of Anywhere, U.S.A. Clowes said he wanted the theme to "hover in the background: the sense that everything in America is becoming the same." That is the case with most American movies about the young; they are as similar in taste and emotional nourishment as McDonald's is to Burger King. In this arid landscape, the edifice of Ghost World, with all its acute insolence, stands out like the Taj Mahal...
...Poison" is not a perfect work. The epic size of the book hasn't been justified by the often unbelievable storylines that never coalesce into a thematic, artistic goal. The book works much better as a smartly depicted character study of the post-graduate, middle-class, suburban types that spend several years in the city before getting married and moving out. The six hundred pages give Robinson room to flash back on important events like Sherman's struggle with his mom's cancer and Ed's tale of retribution against an abusive uncle. Every fifty pages or so he makes...