Word: suburbanitis
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...1950s, Tupperware had a novel idea to promote its product. Instead of mailing catalogues to the suburban housewives who bought their plastic storage containers, they decided to send fellow homemakers--called "Tupperware ladies"--to do the peddling...
...While a suburban childhood was never so idyllic as baby-boomer folklore would have it, it was never supposed to be anything like Katie's, in a fractured family with sexual predators circling at the edges. Her mother Marilyn Beers, 43, wasn't married to the girl's father and says she is not even sure who he is. When Katie was two months old, Beers handed her off to Linda Inghilleri, 39, a godmother who became a surrogate parent, though by some reports not much of one. From first grade on, Katie was absent from school much...
Clinton ended his last day as "just plain Bill" at the Capital Center in suburban Maryland, where Urethra Franklin, Chevy Chase and Michael Bolton performed in his honor...
They tuned out in November, and not just because the economy was bad. Reagan Democrats and suburban Republicans found it hard to vote for the party of Houston. The basic challenge for conservatism as it tries to rebuild is recognizing that its weakness is not what it is for -- most Americans are generally for the same things -- but refusing to define what it is against. Traditional values, not a "Christian nation." Racial color blindness, not racial intolerance. A city on a hill, not an armed camp. Conservatism, not reaction...
Roger Clinton, 36, knows that by a twist of fate he has been cast as the suburban version of Billy Carter, the other honky-tonking younger brother with a history of substance abuse. When the comparison is thrown at him, Roger offers this artful riposte: Did you know, he says, that a cancer-stricken Billy spent the last years of his life counseling other terminally ill patients...