Word: suburbanity
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...Suburban Symphonies...
...answer session following her reading, Chang said she encountered some difficulties in trying to get her work published. She said many American book publishers want Asian-American writers to include elements of the "exotic," while her book focuses on her mother's flight from China and the 1950s suburban lives of her mother and three of her friends as they adapted to the United States...
...scenes happen within the context of Pamela and Dulle Griet's flight through Berlin, punctuated by the comic appearances of Herman and Gunter. The sets bounce wildly between a small theater, the columns of a museum, the streets of riot-torn Berlin, a fancy French hotel and a suburban Berlin hovel; the tone of the play changes just as wildly, such as when Dulle Griet gives a heart-felt monologue about what she imagines her "happy life" will be like, punctuated by Pamela's chirpy "Well, you're certainly the strangest girl I've ever met!" While these sudden shifts...
...Neighborhood The suburban house will combine with its neighbors in more space-efficient patterns, with private courtyards that leave vistas wide and open...
Outrageously naive advice for a high-tech future? Think again. It has been field-tested, and it works. All over the country, people leave valuable private papers in unlocked mailboxes along the street. Astonishing! Suburban mail is a vastly easier mark than anything in cyberspace will ever be. But our mailboxes are largely safe because we are largely honest. Some technology pundits have been startled by people's willingness to confide their credit-card numbers to websites. But for years we have been reciting those numbers over the phone. And we have all sorts of other long-standing habits (paying...