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...children are not exactly cooperating with that fantasy. Chip is a former professor who was fired for having an affair with a student, and now leads an increasingly desperate existence in New York City as an aspiring screenwriter. His older brother Gary is the picture of upper-middle class suburban contentment who can’t seem to ignore or berate his depression into submission. Their younger sister Denise, a successful chef, can’t sort her life out either, and her affairs with both sexes don’t seem to be helping...
Even people who had nervously stood by Condit's side for weeks were beginning to bail. After watching Condit's network-TV performance at a supporter's house in suburban St. Louis, Mo., House minority leader Dick Gephardt shook his head and said over and over to aides, "I can't believe he's not being more candid. I can't believe he's not taking responsibility." In a press conference the next day, he called Condit's evasions "disturbing and wrong...
While Panasonic sold five times as many ruggeds as semi-ruggeds a few years ago, now it's selling about equal amounts of the two. There's no doubt a bit of tech machismo is at work: ruggedized laptops exude the same cool as a Land Rover in a suburban driveway or Timberland boots at a backyard barbecue...
...Look at the teen flicks of the '80s. In their vision of high school, "crowd" is everything. In 1983's "Valley Girl," Nicolas Cage plays a semi-mohawked Hollywood surf-punk with a crush on the suburban aristocrat of the title. When he sings along to a new wave tune on the radio, her cheerleaderish friend reacts as is he's reciting from "Mein Kampf." When he and his buddy decide to sneak into a party at her house where jocks in polo shirts cavort to bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things...
...crowds have lost their power in other movies of the past two years as well. In "Bring it On," Kirsten Dunst's suburban SoCal cheerleader, Torrance, thinks nothing of flirting with a punk who just moved to town from L.A. When he becomes her boyfriend, his punkness and her cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter...