Word: suburbanity
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...south on both sides of the state line. Johnson County is the Kansas side of suburbia and it looks like every other sprawling suburb in America--houses, malls, schools and parks. When we drive through it on our tour, one intern says it looks like suburban Chicago. Another says it looks like Plano, Texas...
...Loud family of California became the test rabbits for the genre when PBS filmed their lives--including the coming out of son Lance and the breakup of the parents' marriage--in the seminal cinema-verite documentary An American Family. The Louds were utterly unprepared to become national symbols of suburban angst. "My mom was very proud of the family she had raised," says Lance, now 49. "It ultimately crushed her how much of the show's emphasis was on the divorce." Sister Michele, now 42, remembers the first screening. "The opening title card read An American Family, and then...
...leafy suburban backyard about an hour's drive south of Manhattan, a tableau of choreographed violence is taking shape. A dozen boys have gathered on a miserably hot Saturday afternoon. They've set up a video camera, loudspeakers and a wrestling ring. Steve Toth, 16, provided the yard. But his mom Colleen has retreated indoors. She'd rather not watch as the teenagers punch, kick and insult one another, as they do most Saturdays...
...world. The actual users of the Main Library are an eloquent confirmation of that fact. On a weekday afternoon they sprawl on the expensive chairs and sit at the wired wooden desks, reading contentedly, together in the stacks. As a symbol of diversity, a homeless man and a suburban teenager sitting next to each other absorbed in books beat hands down an officially sponsored reading room, however attractively wood-paneled...
...toll on the Tobin Bridge. I hang out in the same Harvard Square shops and restaurants I visited in high school, and a home-cooked meal is only a T ride away. When I moved into the Yard two years ago, I figured that the transition from suburban Boston to urban Cambridge would be an easy one. But culture shock hit harder than I expected...