Word: suburbanity
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...Steven Spielberg's office two months earlier. "Steven said, 'You ever seen Indiana Jones?'" the boyish-looking actor recounts, while chain smoking outside the Burbank, Calif., strip mall where he buys his daily Boston Market chicken and Robek's fruit smoothie ("The parking lot of dreams," LaBeouf calls his suburban stomping ground). "I said, 'Of course I've seen Indiana Jones.' He said, 'Well, we're making another one, and I'd like for you to be in it.' My heart went nuts. I've had anxiety attacks before, but I've never felt that--where you can't breathe...
Harry's immediate problem is a new teacher, Miss Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), on assignment to bring discipline to Hog-warts. Pink and perky, she soon becomes the students' nightmare: a cheery commissar, a suburban Stalinist with a smile like a rictus...
...most heavy-handed policies is the 2 p.m. curfew that kicked in this spring for visitors under 18 at Mayfair Mall in suburban Milwaukee. Access was restricted for unsupervised teens on Fridays and Saturdays after several high-profile scuffles, including one in which an 18-year-old's handgun flew over the second-floor railing. The youth-oriented Campaign Against Violence protested that minors weren't responsible for most of the violence and argued that the new rule would take away one of the few safe places where teens can hang out, but the group ran into opposition when...
...when Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are due to give Congress a progress report - to show significant gains in taming the jihadist insurgency and in arresting the country's descent into civil war. Phantom Thunder is an effort to dislodge al-Qaeda from its bases of operation in the suburban belts north and south of Baghdad, and - using intelligence from al-Qaeda's former allies in the Sunni insurgency - to prevent the terrorists from settling in elsewhere in the country. Petraeus says that the entire U.S.-led coalition force, which includes 160,000 American troops, is involved in the operation...
...19th century was defined by what historians call the feminization of the domestic sphere and the marginalization of the father as a parent. By the 1830s, child-rearing manuals, increasingly addressed to mothers, deplored the father's absence from the home. In 1900 one worried observer could describe "the suburban husband and father" as "almost entirely a Sunday institution...