Word: suburbanitis
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Four people were shot to death and one seriously wounded during a holdup at a post office in the quiet suburban community of Montclair, New Jersey. Acting on a tip, police arrested Christopher Green, a former postal co-worker, who the authorities said quickly confessed to the killings, saying he robbed the facility to pay off debts, including his rent...
Wilson himself has a lackluster media presence. This has not always hurt him in California, where hard-plugging, middle-class suburbanites feel he is one of them. Wilson, in fact, lives in a shake-roof ranch house in suburban east Sacramento. He barbecues, plays the piano, exercises on a StairMaster in the spare bedroom, shops for videos at the Arden Fair mall and travels economy class on commercial flights. He is the suburban Everyman...
...that the G.O.P. primary campaign is under way, money is the first order of business--and often the second and third. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter spends four hours every morning cold-calling prospects, sometimes making a joking promise to suburban Philadelphia lawyers that if he loses, he won't come open a law office in their neighborhood. Phil Gramm has been traversing the country with a slickly produced slide show designed as much to intimidate opposing fund raisers as to shake the tree for himself. This week Bob Dole is preparing his third direct-mail drop in nearly as many...
TELEVISION IN THE 1960s and early '70s did not lack absurdities. It was a time when viewers were entertained by a flying nun, a buxom genie and a suburban witch who twitched her nose. Yet of all the ridiculous TV shows of the era, two stand out for their enduring, unfathomable allure: The Brady Bunch, the sitcom about an adage-spewing stepfamily cavorting on an Astroturf lawn, and Gilligan's Island, the tale of seven mismatched castaways on an island that seemed oddly close to Hollywood. Both shows had a goofy otherworldliness painfully out of step with their tumultuous times...
Lugar is distinguished by his normality. Ambitious but not driven, the squeaky-clean Senator has returned $2.4 million of his personal office budget to the Treasury and rarely uses the franking privilege. He lives in suburban Virginia with Charlene, the college sweetheart he married 39 years ago and with whom he has four sons. The couple met when they shared the presidency of the student body at Denison University. While at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, he volunteered for the Navy, where as an intelligence officer, he occasionally briefed President Eisenhower...