Word: suburbanity
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...summer, a day trader in Atlanta shot his family and coworkers, and white supremacists in Los Angeles and Chicago went on rampages against people on the streets. Last spring, the world's eyes were riveted on Littleton, Colo., as two students methodically shot students and a teacher, turning their suburban high school into a brutal and haunting crime scene. In the past few years, equally unrepentant students turned guns on their peers in Oregon and Alabama. And this is to say nothing of the guns used on lovers and rival gangs, against police and innocent bystanders, in every state...
...Some would argue that it's vandalism, pure and simple. In the most literal sense, graffiti is a set of markings that, if nothing else, informs the world of the writer's presence. As demonstrated by the Trustman Gallery's exhibit, today's urban (and suburban) graffiti is a mixture of tags (a writer's intricate and distinctive signature), throw-ups (a large design, usually of letters, done quickly to attract attention) and pieces (short for masterpieces, they resemble murals; an assorted collection of images and words). What these categories don't express is the potential difference between...
...different order entirely. It's never simple; it practically revels in its own emotional impurity. There are so many interlocking issues here that it is a nightmare to explain, and even harder to explain away. The film is crossbred from many pieces. Sometimes it feels like a edgy suburban television drama like "My So-Called Life," about the trials of being a teenager and the equal trials of being a parent. Sometimes it seems to be an adult indie flick, in which bizarre actions have a way of seeming less strange when you look at them up close. Sometimes...
Clinton fatigue, in particular, may be responsible for Gore's weakening support amongst stalwart Democrats in suburban areas...
...trouble began with what felt like a speck of grit in my left eye. I didn't think anything was seriously wrong--until three days later when the eye puffed up and turned weepy and red. I called Glen Ellyn Clinic near my home in west suburban Chicago, and a couple of hours later I found myself seated in a darkened room across from ophthalmologist Mary Mehaffey...