Word: suburbanity
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...know you were in the windowless basement of an apartment tower on the Upper East Side, the mango-sherbet walls, brightly colored play equipment and fuzzy purple apes and orange- pink-and-green spiders suspended from the ceiling could just as easily be in any small town or suburban strip mall...
...those nostalgic images of an active childhood that most adults carry in their memories have all but disappeared in much of the nation. City streets and parks are often too dangerous for kids to play in. Suburban streets teem with traffic. TV, video games and the Internet seduce children into staying indoors and sitting inert. Even in quiet towns, walking or biking to school is increasingly rare...
...exist side by side. In the one where I live, residents have experienced virtually no crime and enjoy the freedom of their streets around the clock. Frederic Marais Pretoria Your generally well-balanced article erred in the juxtaposition of a photo of a particularly lowly shelter with an exclusive suburban mansion: black shelter, white mansion. Life here is just not that simplistic, and it does no one any good to view it in those terms. There are the dreadfully poor and the obscenely wealthy, to be sure. But color, or race, is less and less the deciding factor. There...
...script, which was screenwriter Simon Kinberg's graduate thesis at Columbia University Film School, had been kicking around for months. Liman had already passed on it once. It's the story of a seemingly conventional suburban couple facing two very big problems. One, their marriage is arid and joyless. And two, they both, each unbeknownst to the other, are topflight assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering...
...course, you can expect next fall's new shows to include a number of risk-taking shows that break from the usual formulas and demand much of their viewers' patience and intelligence. Ha! Just kidding! Seriously, though, look for some new shows with monsters and hot 40-year-old suburban women. Or maybe hot, 40-year-old monsters...