Word: suburbanity
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...Spacey, publicizing the movie became his way of giving thanks to the teacher who opened his world to acting. Spacey's mentor, Robert Carrelli, says he "stole" Spacey from another high school (in his senior year, no less) to get him into the drama program at Chatsworth High in suburban Los Angeles. Under Carrelli, the young Spacey got involved not only in acting but also in directing and set design with classmates Mare Winningham and Val Kilmer. (As a tribute to another mentor, his great-uncle, English actor John Graham Spacey, Spacey dropped his last name, Fowler...
...diseased mind. The Son thinks in music. He is a child prodigy at the piano, and his musings flit around the tones of baseball bats, humming power lines and clicking typewriters. But he becomes disillusioned with music after the accident. The piano is a lifeless manifestation of the comfortable suburban lifestyle that is wrecked forever...
...Louis proper may be Gephardt country, Democrat country, but the suburban streets west of Wash U. definitely belong to Bush. There are no Gore/Lieberman signs in the nicely manicured lawns here, only Bush/Cheney and the occasional "Go Cardinals." And ravens. Ravens everywhere, perching on the signs, quothing "nevermore" incessantly, which may or may not be a good omen for the candidates...
...while, Milosevic remained out of sight, whereabouts unknown. His suburban palace looked eerily empty as it stood guarded by a single soldier. Rumors flew that the boss was holed up in a bunker in eastern Serbia or already on a cargo plane to Belarus. In fact, he was locked away, as ever, in his private parallel universe, brooding on his next move, no doubt egged on to defiance by his uncompromising wife Mira. Serbs were so used to his prodigious talent for survival that they feared he still had one more trick up his sleeve. From his balcony overlooking...
Child-care crises are sometimes the last straw for working mothers who already feel overwhelmed. Virginia Menachof's job as an account manager for a printing company in suburban Chicago kept flooding into her home life. When her sister-in-law, who had been caring for Menachof's two kids, began to reconsider the arrangement three years ago, the solution suddenly seemed clear: "It hit me that I wanted to be home. I couldn't handle the stress anymore, and I wanted to be with my kids." Her husband was a self-employed lawyer with an unpredictable income...