Word: suburbanity
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Housewives earns points for pushing the network TV envelope. Its dark comedic overtones are a welcome change from the usual saccharine sitcom slop, and the plotlines—mostly concerning the desperations and desires of a group of wealthy suburban mothers—are clever and engaging. Despite its flaws, the show’s mix of quirk and charm makes it (for now) the best primetime soap this side of premium cable...
...individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He maps the spiritual connections between the bleak machismo of West Coast--detective fiction and the desperado postures of L.A. gangsta rap. He points out the lines that connect hip-hop, with its audience of white suburban boys, to 19th century minstrel shows, in which whites in blackface strutted racial clichés before applauding white ticket buyers...
...that the real push begins. By then, the state G.O.P. wants to have each volunteer take responsibility for turning out 25 specific households that are likely to vote for Bush. The staffing charts for the past five days are already on the wall at the Licking County headquarters in suburban Columbus. By last Monday, 350 shifts were filled with 100 volunteers. Republicans, like Democrats, say this is an operation unlike any they have ever seen. "The grass-roots effort did not exist in 2000," says Richard Finan, a former G.O.P. state senate president who is working with a group called...
Although he sports silver-tipped cowboy belts, Mehlman grew up in suburban Baltimore, Md. A Harvard Law School grad, he practiced environmental law in Washington but found he was spending much of his free time on campaigns and figured, "Why not get paid for doing my hobby?" He became chief of staff to Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger in 1996. Rove, Granger's campaign consultant, hooked Mehlman up with Bush, then Governor of Texas. Mehlman became field director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, in which he focused, as he does in this year's race, on the prosaic mechanics...
...Hickeys' tale is becoming a more common suburban phenomenon, experts say. It makes financial sense: parents get retirement income, and kids get an appreciating asset. "With real estate prices skyrocketing in the past 10 years, people's homes increasingly make up a significant portion of their retirement portfolios," says Dennis Belcher, past chairman of the section of real property, probate and trust law of the American Bar Association (A.B.A.). For the kids, it's a way, involving minimal risk, to get into a house that they might not otherwise be able to afford...