Word: suburbanitis
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...look now, but after shocking the airline and telecommunications industries, competition is about to jolt your sleepy electric company. Just ask Malcolm Buck, a software-support rep whose apartment in suburban Atlanta is wired for phone service, cable TV, high-speed Internet access, and security- and energy-management systems--all flowing through a single cable installed by the Southern Co., his local utility. Buck calls the electric-bill savings alone "pretty amazing...
Unfortunately, the secondary source relied on by Tucker is in error. The case, Pugh v. City and Suburban Telephone Association (9 WL Bull 104) was decided by an Ohio District Court. Further, although Tucker's description of the case in factually correct, none of the quotations he cites appear in the actual text of the case. --Jol Silversmith...
...explosion, which injured at least five people, follows the deadly Centennial Park bombing during last summer's Olympics and the January bombings at a suburban family-planning clinic. As federal investigators began looking at evidence from the latest explosion, similarities with the earlier incidents were striking. When police arrived at the Otherside Lounge on Friday night, they discovered a second bomb in the parking lot. That was the same m.o. as in the abortion-clinic attack, when a second explosion injured rescue workers responding to the first blast, apparently by design. This time police were able to detonate the second...
...teen idol, and it totally worked." Then Tim Burton gave him the opportunity to bury it for good with Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp played an abandoned monster with cutlery where his digits should have been, trying with sweetly contained but (considering his weaponry) dangerous eagerness to adjust to suburban normalcy. Everyone from moony adolescents to case-hardened movie critics could read the silent, yet somehow unsentimental, plea for succor emanating from his deep obsidian eyes, wonderfully set off by whiteface makeup...
...outsider art"--meaning the work of amateur artists with no access to the art world as a system--has been a rising vogue in America. Each winter a whole fair is dedicated to it in New York City, and there isn't a scribbling schizophrenic, crotcheting aunt or suburban obsessive constructing replicas of the Eiffel Tower from wooden toothpicks in his New Jersey basement who can be deemed altogether immune to discovery by dealers. There's no mystery about why this should be so, since a) the art market has run out of new "movements," while b) there has been...