Word: suburbanized
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...much relief in sight, even if the U.S. unemployment rate rises a bit from its 28-year low of 4.3%. In Austin, Texas, for example, the national rate is quite irrelevant. Unemployment there is officially 2.3%, and Steve Mays, director of a suburban grocery store, says only half-jokingly that it "is really minus 1.7%," given the "cannibalism" of employers' swiping workers from one another...
...cute little couple looked as if they should be sauntering through Great Adventure or waiting in line for tokens at the local arcade. Instead, the 14-year-olds walked purposefully into the Teen Center in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah. They didn't mince words about their reason for stopping in. For quite some time, usually after school and on weekends, the boy and girl had tried to heighten their arousal during sex. Flustered yet determined, the pair wanted advice on the necessary steps that might lead them to a more fulfilling orgasm. His face showing all the desperation...
...Sinatra sings "You stick around, Jack, it might show" on Something, you get the feeling not that he's hoking it up Vegas-style so much as he's rooting around for rhythmic complexity in a beautiful if simple song; he's a muscle car idling on a leafy suburban...
Such attire was not the norm at Rosenbaum's suburban California high school. Yet, all of the male students attending Harvard interviews from Rosenbaum's high school wore suits--afraid, he recalls, that they would be outstyled by his sharp appearance...
...party--indeed, probably would have created the plot expressly to condemn the previous generation for messing up the world, etc., etc. But Moody makes no moral judgments on the sad state of affairs in Connecticut that has hemmed Hex and Billie and Billie's husband Lou Sloane into standard suburban lives; instead, he analyzes and describes and unravels character and action and landscape in scintillating prose. He is a young author who chooses to write about rather sordid, dull aspects of modern life, to be sure, but he follows an old, old tradition of writing wellcrafted, intelligent novels with Purple...