Word: suburbanitis
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...institutions of white America. The fact that there are no black NFL team owners demonstrates these limits as well. In cinema, Debbie Allan had to push for ten years until she could get the backing of Steven Spielberg to produce Amistad. Moreover, Puffy's success has depended on the suburban white teenagers who have become the biggest consumers of hip-hop and Puffy's target market...
While I find Milgrom-Elcott's editorial interesting for bringing such an exemplary case of church-state co-existence in public schools, I do not care for her misinformation, however benign. Her vision of Dekalb county is tantamount to referring to all of the suburban parts of Middlesex county when referring only to Cambridge, glossing over this community's deserved autonomy from Boston proper. NATHANIEL W. BULLARD '00 March...
...than biblical. "My Old Idols" remembers the crisp erotic sting of a parochial school instructor wielding a pointer while drilling pupils in Greek: "Accounts of murder and sacrifice/ Only suggested the heavy price/ I longed to pay at his behest." Born on the Main Line, an upscale, old-money suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, McClatchy has an aristocratic tartness that comes through both in his stanzas and in his remarks about poetry in general, which he sees slipping into sloppy populism. "There are a lot of Sunday painters out there; they don't expect their paintings to hang in museums. But every...
Giuliani was already three days into a meltdown in which he'd snapped at, among others, a columnist who claimed that he clocked Giuliani speeding in his GMC Suburban shortly after the mayor vowed a crackdown on scofflaw motorists as well as jaywalkers, and promised--read closely here--the creation of a more polite New York City...
...power ballad of the late '80s was a creation of arena rock. In large, suburban arenas, so-called "hair metal" bands would take the stage amid lights and mist and hordes of adoring fans waving lighters. But though it may have been linked with the arena, the power ballad came through just fine on the car radio or on the boom box at the beach. The power ballad relied on strong, clear vocals, on lyrics that were simple and trite but always direct and plainly emotional, on the electric guitar and, most of all, on sheer volume. This wasn...