Word: suburbanitis
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Mitchell and Forsgard haven't lived at their suburban home for long; they spent most of the past decade in the College house system. Mitchell was a resident tutor at North House from 1983 to 1987, and Forsgard served as an Eliot House tutor from 1980 to 1989. The two were co-tutors in North House from...
...country or in the heart of the city has become a life-style declaration only slightly less exotic than a commitment to vegetarianism or the Latin Mass. In 1950 moving out to some spick-and-span new subdivision was the very heart of the American dream. In 1990 suburban living is simply a middle-class entitlement -- it is how people live...
...census figures show, in fact, that suburbanites will soon be the American majority, up from being about a third of the population back in 1950. Yet as America's cities and villages have dissolved into vast suburban nebulas, no one seems entirely happy with the result. From Riverside County in southern California to Fairfax County in northern Virginia, new American suburbs tend to be disappointments, if not outright failures. Traffic jams are regularly as bad as anything in the fearsome, loathsome city. Waste problems can be worse. Boundaries are ill defined; town centers are nonexistent. Too often, there...
...steered his car through a suburban intersection last August, Ramiro de Jesus Rodriguez collided with a parent's worst nightmare: when his car hit an oncoming van, his daughter, three-year-old Veronica, pitched from her mother's arms into the windshield, suffering fatal head injuries. Last week the grieving father came before a Miami court, charged with vehicular homicide for failing to strap his child into a safety seat. The case against Rodriguez was so wrenching and his tale so sad that many potential jurors expressed outrage that he was even being put on trial...
DINOSAURS (ABC, debuting April 26, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Meet the Sinclairs, a blue- collar suburban family with a difference: they're domesticated dinosaurs. From an idea by the late Jim Henson, this live-action sitcom is set in the year 60,000,003 B.C. Any resemblance to our own society is purely intentional...