Word: suburbanitis
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...funk so deep only psychiatrists would be flourishing here. Consumer confidence has fallen to an all-time low, according to pollster A.C. Nielsen's latest bi-annual survey. Yet the city's malls and restaurants are no less crowded than before. Property launches are thronged, especially for cheaper suburban homes. Nor are Singaporeans just flipping the pages of the glossy property brochures or sadly gazing at the architectural models, wishing they were one of the frolicking toy figures in the miniature pool. They're buying too. Property developers sold 1,332 units of new private homes in February, a bumper...
...infidelity here, a dash of marijuana there—the suburban Eden post-apple is a common enough story. Film, especially, is a repeat offender of this fixation on suburbia’s trouble in paradise; “Revolutionary Road,” “The Stepford Wives,” and “American Beauty,” for example, are a few of the many films that deal with the farce of suburban bliss. Director Derick Martini’s latest dramedy, “Lymelife,” is another, but it strips that...
Since then, the gangs have dumped the severed heads of other victims in front of suburban town halls. So Rojas (not his real name, which he asked to be changed for security reasons) took his family across the Rio Grande to live in an apartment in El Paso, Texas. "I feel fearful, impotent," he says. Worse, he adds, is the realization that the police in Jurez not only are incapable of stopping gangs but are "working with them. Our police institutions have been overrun by narcos. Changing that will take many years and some very big cojones." (See pictures...
...nattily dressed father of three, British science-fiction and international "cult author" J.G. Ballard was the picture of suburban propriety. But the orderliness of his personal life allowed him to create a surreal, visionary fiction that was often frankly pathological...
...Some of that activity was rooted in France's leftist-driven insurrectional tradition, which snakes from the Revolution through the Paris Commune, into the Resistance and beyond May 1968. By the suburban riots of 2005, however, the ethnically diverse, economically disenfranchised project youths behind that violence had adapted France's tradition of politicized insurgency to a pragmatic goal that bossnapping employees are now also pursuing: securing a productive, gainful spot in France's market economy and capitalist society. The French public largely sympathizes: 55% of people in a BVA/Les Echos poll this week said they believe radical protest measures...