Word: suburbanized
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...atop the Tower Club, a posh, crusted-sea-bass kind of eatery crowning an office building in Tysons Corner, Va. Barely visible in the distance is the 555-ft.-high Washington Monument, looking like a gray toothpick far out on the horizon. But right down below, amid miles of suburban shopping malls and carpet outlets and car dealerships, is a place that's becoming as important as the formal capital of the U.S., a place that's doing something traditional Washington has never done before: generating billions in private wealth...
...Summers, who recently ventured all the way out to speak to a gathering of new CEOs at the Tower Club. "The synergy of telecommunications and the Internet has created a boom." And this is a boom with cultural as well as economic consequences. The thousands of companies that dapple suburban Maryland and Virginia don't face the Pentagon or the Treasury anymore: they face Fairfax County, Va., where the real money is. "The best thing governments can do is stay out of the way," says a prominent northern Virginia venture capitalist, voicing a common if ironic sentiment in the heart...
...with a hormone-charged manifesto: "These are the years that you're supposed to go [bleep] wildHave unprotected sex! Go do drugs! Smoke cigarettes! Drink alcohol! Watch porno! Rent porno movies! Get porno magazines! Porno, porno, porno!" With his close-cropped blond hair, foul language (bleeped for TV) and suburban-homey getup, he's one of the million angry wannabe boys that Eminem pegs in The Real Slim Shady, "Who cuss like me/ Who just don't give a f___ like me/Who dress like me/Walk, talk and act like...
...cautionary tales, all sex and guns and social decay. Cutler set out instead to capture a poignant crossroads--"when you're a kid, rushing to grow up, and an adult, hanging on to the last vestiges of childhood." High dares, subversively, to find decency in its children of suburban comfort, from Morgan to soulful jock Robby to Kaytee, a winsome songwriter with a defensive ironic streak...
Last week Mary Cheney, 31, stayed in Wyoming after her dad's debut rally. She was away from the suburban Denver home she shares with her girlfriend Heather and away from the constantly ringing phone. She was torn over how to handle press inquiries about her homosexuality. "I love my father," she told an acquaintance. "I don't want to be a distraction...