Word: suburbanized
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Politicians often succumb to the constant pressure for a stirring personal anecdote. During his abortive run for the presidency in 1987, solidly suburban Senator Joseph Biden appropriated scenes from the coal-mining boyhood of British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. To make a point about welfare dependency, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said his sister was once so dependent on handouts she would get "mad when the mailman [was] late with her check." In fact, she worked most of her life...
...congealed into a deep gloom as headlines warned of the coming "Great Depression." The government that for so many decades guided the economy with an iron hand is floundering, seemingly at a loss for ways to yank the country out of its tailspin. Kazumi Ehara, an auto salesman in suburban Tokyo, speaks for many of his countrymen when he says, "The Japanese people have been told repeatedly by the government that the economy will get better, only to be betrayed. I can no longer trust them...
...really pneumonia, and he was out of action for two months.) But there's no cause for alarm, officials claimed last week: the President will keep working while he is resting for 10 or 12 days in the sanatorium that is conveniently located next to his suburban residence. This little respiratory infection, they say, is merely the unlucky result of the President's failure to wear a hat during a visit to Sweden...
...ultimate in sublime background for a slasher movie. The movie's theme "Scream," by Master P featuring Sukk the Shocker, presents a wailing cry for help, obviously fitting into Wes Craven's attempt to bring the horror movie genre into mainstream pop culture. Most humorously, the Kottonmouth King's "Suburban Life" recreates the spirit of idiotic teenage angst that hasn't been so perfectly dealt with since the "You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party" by the Beastie Boys...
...talented Ang Lee directs this film about uneasy family relationships in the restess, promiscuous 1970s with crystalline precision. As the leaders of two archly funny but disturbingly bleak suburban clans, Kevin Kline, Joan Allen and Sigourney Weaver give refreshingly honest performances, but the film's ending offers their characters no hint of redemption. The ice storm, as a natural symbol of change and the wiping away of sins, is like Noah's flood without the rainbow...