Word: suburbanitis
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Clark cannot help but laugh as he shares with his audience "a good way to freak somebody out" in a suburban laundromat. Sprinkling soda water on his face to simulate nervous perspiration and biting his nails viciously, Clark asks, "How are you guys at getting blood out of things? No, I mean a lot of blood. I can get it off the wall...
...triumph over one's enemies is one of life's deepest satisfactions, and Kreimer has been blessed with the feeling. Thanks to a barrage of legal actions against suburban Morristown (pop. 16,500), Kreimer received a $150,000 out-of-court settlement last week. More money may be on its way. Usually sporting long black hair and scruffy beard, Kreimer resembles Rasputin -- and Morristown has discovered that he's just as difficult to dismiss...
...Kozol has no illusions about the political feasibility of such a system. "Virtually no white liberals are willing to discuss this," he says. Even during the Boston busing crisis, Kozol says, Boston suburban liberals "used their own racism to exonerate racists of South Boston...
...While the price of housing and tuition went shooting through the roof, the median household income remained stuck where it has been ever since the late '70s, at about $30,000 a year. The curious result being that if you want to be middle class in the old-fashioned suburban sense, you need to be pretty near rich...
...American goalie Ray LeBlanc has blossomed in part because of advice from former Soviet star Vladislav Tretiak, who coaches goalies for the Chicago Black Hawks' farm team in Indianapolis, from which LeBlanc is on loan. Gene Ubriaco, coach of the Italian team, is a Canadian who lives in suburban Baltimore, and had been dismissed as coach of the N.H.L.'s Pittsburgh Penguins before hooking up with the team from his father's homeland. The top-seeded Swedes have four former or current N.H.L. All-Stars. Rounding things out, there is a Czech defector on the German team and half...