Word: suburbanized
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...most recognizable doctors in the country lives in one of its most private corners, at the foot of the remote Rincon Mountains in southern Arizona. To get there you have to travel about 35 miles outside downtown Tucson, along progressively rutted, flood-prone roads, until an incongruously suburban sign points you to the WEIL RESIDENCE. If Weil didn't show the way, it is unlikely you'd ever stumble across the place...
...festival, she says, if it doesn't lead to a strategy for better schools and jobs. Steady work is scarce in the industrial ruins, enrollment at six area schools shows a 95% poverty rate, and two-thirds of the students don't graduate. Villanova's Dore grew up in suburban Philadelphia watching her peers waste opportunities. Here, she says, in a neighborhood 78% Latino and 11% black, kids are hungry for any advantage...
...concept couldn't be higher--that is to say, simpler: a professional assassin goes to his high school reunion. Ha-ha. Can't you just see the double takes when Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) tells all those suburban housewives and real estate salesmen what he's been doing since graduation...
...also a hunted man, mostly by Dan Aykroyd's Grocer, a goofily rational rival determined either to bring him into a hired killers' union that he is intent on forming or, failing that, to off the competition. Curiously enough, Grocer and his henchmen blend quite easily into the suburban scene. Grosse Pointe may have grander homes and less snow than, say, Fargo, but spiritually they are sister cities--places where everyone tries to maintain an air of chipper blandness in the face of postmodernism's disorder...
Gradually the Armenian immigrants forged a better life for themselves and began to migrate to suburban Watertown...