Word: suburbanity
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...Spitzer home in suburban Riverdale was comfortable but not showy. Spitzer was a top student and athlete (he captained Mann's tennis team), though his parents never focused on that. They recall attending just one soccer game, the last of the season in his senior year, arriving just as Eliot was called for a penalty. "Free kick, they lost," his father says with a laugh. The parents concentrated on their children's intellectual side--in ways that made their friends snicker. One of the kids--Spitzer is the youngest of three--would be made responsible for leading a dinner discussion...
Things were different back in Tomball, Texas, a town of 10,000 where Watkins and her younger sister Julie were raised. Today, with its strip malls and megastores, Tomball is at the outer edge of Houston's suburban sprawl. But when Watkins was growing up, it was a no-stoplight town with an oil derrick on each corner. Her ancestors were among the hardy German immigrants who descended in the mid-1800s and helped establish the Lutheran church her mother Shirley Klein Harrington still attends each Sunday. It seemed as if Watkins either knew or was related to everyone...
...controversy comes at a time when many Republicans had begun to believe that in George W. Bush they had found an inclusive messenger who could help them attract minority votes. And the damage among some white voters could be even greater: Lott may have tainted his party among educated suburban professionals and managers who are sympathetic to the G.O.P. on economic issues but are repulsed by any hint of coded appeals to prejudice. Senator John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, says of Lott's misstep, "It will take a lot of work for us to negate...
...this movie is in love with female victimization. Moore's Laura is trapped in the suburban flatlands of the '50s, while Streep's Clarissa is moored in a hopeless love for Laura's homosexual son (Ed Harris, in a truly ugly performance), an AIDS sufferer whose relentless anger is directly traceable to Mom's long-ago desertion of him. Somehow, despite the complexity of the film's structure, this all seems too simple-minded. Or should we perhaps say agenda driven? The same criticisms might apply to the fact that both these fictional characters (and, it is hinted, Woolf herself...
Within hours, chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, stranded in the snow at his suburban Virginia home, got a call from chief of staff Andrew Card. He wanted to meet the next day. In a time-honored Washington version of hara-kiri, Lindsey offered his resignation before he was fired. The next one expected to go, probably next month, is the head of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, Glenn Hubbard, who wants to return to teaching. His departure would complete the housecleaning that began when Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt resigned on election night. Though the abruptness...