Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harshness see it as a kind of dry rot, a slow and dusty torpor of the soul that accommodates itself all tooeasilyto the relentless affluence of Scarsdale and Grosse Pointe, to a world of shopping malls and Little League coaches and bitching at the mailman. Even at its best, suburban life breeds a brand of insularity, an isolated arrogance of comfort, that forces its own visions of itself into small places, like bedrooms and garages. Small places and small horizons--no better way to chronicle this world of great, elastic satisfaction. And so if you stay there too long, your...
...plot revolves around Richard Chamberlain as a Sydney corporate lawyer living an idyllic suburban life with his wife and two adorable little girls. When the weather begins to act strangely, Chamberlain is unconcerned. His life is ordered and promising--he plays tennis on Sundays on his backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain...
...than morning papers; indeed, afternoon papers account for about 57% of total daily circulation. For the past few years, however, city P.M.s have been generally losing circulation while many A.M.s have been gaining. Publishers attribute this attrition to the scourges of the afternoon: heightened competition from television news and suburban dailies, traffic jams that make midday delivery difficult, and readers' morning habits. Says Dallas Times Herald Publisher Lee Guittar: "People are acclimated to having their newspaper with their morning coffee...
...recall election) by being a kind of urban populist in a city composed almost entirely of poor, working-class ethnics and blacks. His slogan was "Power to the People," and he waged war against the "establishment" that exploits the city for its own profit from its downtown offices and suburban homes...
...reporters and gawkers staked out his home near suburban Norridge the other side began to come out--the bags of lime he always seemed to be carrying into the house, the noise of construction work filtering out from his basement, the young boys the mailman and others always saw around the house. Someone told the papers about a fire in the garage (where a couple of bodies were later discovered). A nude Gacy, afraid the bodies would be found, ran frantically from the shower to put it out himself before firemen arrived, readers were informed...