Word: suburbanity
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...rallies in April showed. But those may have little impact on the 2006 congressional elections. The rallies were in cities like Los Angeles that are already represented by pro-immigrant, Democratic Congressmen. Most of the districts Republicans have to win in are places like Columbus, Ohio, and Westport, Connecticut - suburban areas without huge Hispanic voting-populations. And while Latinos are growing as a politically influential voting block, they still only account for 6% of the voting population...
John Updike has appeared on the cover of this magazine twice, once in 1968 and again in 1982. The first time was for Couples, his then scandalous, still shocking novel of suburban partner swapping. The headline read THE ADULTEROUS SOCIETY. When he made the cover again, having just won nearly every literary award in existence for Rabbit Is Rich, the third in his four-volume Rabbit saga, he rated a somewhat tamer caption: GOING GREAT...
...unwillingness of audiences to forgive the band is inseparable from politics. Market research indicates the average country listener is white, suburban and leans to the right, and they need not lean too far to file away an insult against a wartime President. Still, as the President's support has eroded and growing numbers of Americans (presumably some country-music fans among them) have come to disapprove of both his performance and the decision to go to war, shouldn't there be a proportional feeling of forgiveness toward the Dixie Chicks...
...familiar story. In the American West, mountain lions are getting squeezed, and lethal attacks by the big cats have become more frequent. In the Northeast, it is black bears, foraging in suburban backyards. In Florida, it's alligators. And unlike cougars and bears, which are rarely spotted, alligators are everywhere and are almost always docile. Along a path just inside Everglades park's Shark Valley entrance, for example, alligators loll along the bank of the adjacent canal, as uninterested in the people as they are in the bugs that swirl overhead. Yet park employees have seen tourists run over alligators...
...humid but shady banks. Take an old rail bridge over the C&O canal and towpath (which, for the more adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...