Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...single trace of him. Then early last week, with authorities suddenly hot on the trail, Belgian Millionaire Baron Edouard-Jean Empain, 40, was released by his captors in a frenzied panic that contrasted sharply with their coolly professional capture of him 63 days earlier. Dropped off in suburban Ivry and handed 20 francs, Empain used the money to take a Métro to the Place de l'Opéra and to call his wife Sylvana from a pay telephone...
Works dwell more on color, emotions, and light than on the figures themselves. They also deal with a potpourri of contemporary and traditional settings for the figures. For example, while one painting deals with a suburban poolside scene, a sculpture, entitled "The Falling Couple," seems to concern man's fall from paradise. The irony of seeing these two works in one room detracts from the figures in the works. In this general confusion there are, though, some fascinating works...
...black South African, a woman he met while spying there, who has a small boy (fathered by another man). But apart from the obligatory references to apartheid and Castle's off-the-job self-image as "an honorary black," they lead the dull and insistently predictable life of any suburban couple. At this point in his life (he is 64), Castle asks the bare minimum of life. And like most Greene heroes, he harbors the perpetual conviction that the less you expect from life the more you're likely to lose...
Their homes probably tell as much about the differences among the men who belong to the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association as the bottom lines of their companies' balance sheets. In suburban Pittsburgh, top executives of U.S. Steel, which owns the sixth largest coal company in the country, live in elegant mansions. In Greene County, Pa., the owners of small coal mines may own the biggest houses in town, which are usually simple frame dwellings. In Pikeville, Ky., some owners of mines that suddenly boomed because of the energy crisis have built French provincial-style houses, known locally...
...back seat finally got to them). I have known, with a sense of doom approximating the feeling of a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, that I will not be embarking on a spree in the Netherlands Antilles, but on a hopeless quest to entertain myself in a deserted suburban wasteland...