Word: suburbanitis
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...world's TV, when the norm was more ... normal. Back then, quiet types like Henry Fonda and Gary Cooper played the extraordinary ordinary man. That's Hanks. Offscreen, apparently, he leads a calm, happy life. Onscreen, he is less likely to explode than to simmer and smile. With his suburban niceness and elusive, rubberized features -- any photo of him is bound to look smudged -- he is a '40s fella...
Remember Harry and Louise, the insurance industry's suburban juggernaut aimed at shooting holes in support for the White House health-care plan? The straight-talking couple, who starred in a series of ads earlier this year, were concerned about losing their freedom to choose their own doctor. Well, they switched parties. And now, in an ad sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, Harry and Louise find themselves facing a major health-care crisis. He's muffled with bandages, has lost his job and insurance. "You said you'd never lose your job, so we'd always be covered," Louise...
...joys of summer. The scent of fresh-cut grass. Water sprinklers spraying. Flowers flourishing by the porch. Neatly trimmed hedges. The American suburban dream in full bloom...
...crime was sensational, the kind that local TV-news operations salivate over. A 14-year-old boy had shot himself to death in a parked car beside a freeway moments after killing his mother in their suburban Minneapolis home. Like every other station in the Twin Cities, WCCO-TV gave the story prominent play on its early-evening newscast. But, astonishingly, the station showed none of the gruesome footage that was available -- a shot of the boy slumped in his car, another of his mother's covered body being carried from their home. Instead the story was told...
...found plausible plot uses for everything from a Dungeons & Dragons-style game to London's Waterloo Bridge and has evoked laughs from such unlikely topics as a violent bank robbery and a young beauty's attempts to kill herself with the everyday tools and appliances of her suburban kitchen. Ayckbourn's originality, wit, poignancy and unfailing empathy for middle-class values have made him the dominant commercial voice in British theater. Belatedly, he is winning a significant following in America...