Word: suburbanity
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Eventually, in 1989, Fetisov was allowed by President Mikhail Gorbachev to emigrate and led the Detroit Red Wings to two Stanley Cups. He now lives in suburban New Jersey, where he works for the New Jersey Devils. Yet he has agreed to coach this year's Russian Olympic team. For free. "It would be the easiest thing for me to turn my back. I have my family here. I have a nice house," he says. "But I can't say no to the people of Russia. People who raised me, who gave me education--how can you deny them...
...social relations are evolving slowly, urbanization is happening in a hurry. Some 1.7 million people now live on the Wasatch Front, an almost uninterrupted suburban strip along the I-15 highway from Ogden through Salt Lake down to Provo. The entire valley often has a blanket of brown air hanging over it, the legacy of years of unchecked growth. Now the consensus on unlimited growth is being challenged--from within the state...
...Fastow was never considered a big man on campus, not even at his suburban New Jersey high school. A teacher there remembers Fastow only as a slacker who tried to talk him into raising his grades. Hardly anyone at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management can even recall him from his years as an M.B.A. student. The response is similar at Tufts, where he studied Chinese and economics as an undergrad and played a little trombone and tennis on the side. Most Enron employees didn't know who he was until relatively recently. As head of Enron Capital Management...
...become the drug user, failure or adulterer, to be the sinner, not the saint. But Ford’s stories, though their generalizations may be accurate, apply only to a specific group of Americans who are set (or so they think) in their well-paying jobs, nuclear families, and suburban homes. A Multitude of Sins may well be a classic, but only of the aging-Yuppie variety...
...NonFiction, the less mechanical and derivative section of Storytelling, Solondz digs into the familiar territory of surburban misery and dysfunction. The story centers on Toby Oxman, (Paul Giamatti), a dejected shoe salesman who plans to make a documentary film about the underbelly of suburban high school, and the Livingstons, a middle-class Jewish-American family. Oxman finds his ideal protagonist in Scooby Livingston, an apathetic, strung-out, futureless student who spends most of his time organzing his CD collection and dreaming of being Conan O’Brien’s sidekick. Oxman follows Scooby through his nonexistent college search...