Word: suburbanity
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...hardly took the Mayflower Madam to alert the citizenry to the news that genteel women had taken up prostitution. French films had the story 20 years ago: Luis Bunuel's Belle de Jour and Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her spoke of suburban housewives who supplemented their allowances by turning tricks. The twist in Lizzie Borden's new film is that its call-girl protagonist Molly (Louise Smith) uses her earnings to support her half of a lesbian relationship...
...Blake, who was born in Yonkers, N.Y., a lob shot away from Ashe Stadium, and grew up in suburban Fairfield County, Connecticut, idolized Agassi. He first saw him play at the U.S Open some 15 years ago during Agassi's mullet and earring years. "I saw him here back when he had those lime green shorts hanging out of the denim shorts," Blake says. "I think I got a pair of the denim ones. Not the lime green ones-I couldn't pull that off." Even after beating Nadal, Blake still considers a 2002 win over Agassi at a Washington...
...scope of the calamity in New Orleans was beginning to become apparent last week, Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, stepped back for a moment and thought the unthinkable--out loud. In a very unguarded comment to the editorial board of the Daily Herald, a suburban-Chicago newspaper, the most powerful Republican in the House said, "It doesn't make sense to me" to rebuild the city because its position below sea level would make it vulnerable to another floodwater catastrophe. Talking about what the Federal Government should do, he said, "We help replace, we help relieve disaster...
...Lowry, where the Air Force had a technical training center, was compounded five years later by the closing of nearby Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, which had 12,000 employees. Those two shutdowns, combined with the closing of the city-owned Stapleton Airport, left heavily urban northeastern Denver and suburban Aurora with 11 sq. mi. of land in desperate need of recycling...
...spent summers with his father Ray, a former Black Panther who is now a Christian marriage counselor), West went to good schools, received art and music lessons and, when he was 10, spent a year in Nanjing, China, where his mother was a visiting professor. Like many suburban kids, he developed a passion for hip-hop that was only enhanced by his awareness that the genre often romanticized bad behavior. His mother did not exactly approve; when West went to concerts, even in his late teens, she often followed. "He maybe doesn't know this," says Donda West...