Word: suburbanity
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...Kumin was born Maxine Winokur in 1925, the fourth child—and only daughter—of a South Philadelphia pawnbroker. The family lived in suburban Germantown; the hillside location of the Winokur family home was later immortalized in Kumin’s “Halfway,” the title poem of her 1961 anthology...
...last season generated so much good will, and extra revenues, by cutting ticket prices and signing American League MVP Vladimir Guerrero provide fodder for late-night comedians? (Craig Ferguson joked of another name change: "The San Francisco Giants on Steroids"). More important, why would Moreno potentially alienate an affluent suburban fan base in Orange County? Says Anaheim mayor Curt Pringle, a red T shirt that reads THE ANAHEIM ANGELS OF ANAHEIM hanging in his office: "We're sad, and we're very disappointed...
...lived in suburban Kansas City, Mo., that summer of Star Wars. I was an incipiently tortured child who had crushes on most of the boys in the neighborhood. That was confusing--to me as well as most of the boys in the neighborhood--but my mounting uncertainty found a clarifying counterpoint in Han Solo. When I was playing with the neighbor kids, I would adopt a sarcastic, daring Solo persona. I didn't quite get Lucas' hieratic Jedi myths or his nearly liturgical lightsaber duels. But Solo's weapons--his blaster and his mouth--those I got. I would charge...
...separate more than anyone else on college campuses. Douglass Massey’s “American Apartheid” cites that one in four whites prefer to live in a neighborhood entirely absent of black people. White people have run miles and miles away from minorities, leaving vast suburban wastelands all over the country, wastelands where everything looks the same and white people do variations of all the same things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better to do in the middle of the night than...
...have the home they really wanted. When Phillip's new employer at the time--United Parcel Service--moved him to Louisville, the couple found a nine-month-old one-story house that had all the features and charm they had ever wanted. It was located in an upscale suburban neighborhood that was the perfect place for them to settle down in and spend their golden years...