Word: suburbanized
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...creates characters related by theme, in skits that never peter out. At his fiercest, he confronts audiences with the daily ugliness they try to screen out, from deranged bums urinating in the subway to drug freaks convinced that violence is the answer, whatever the question is, to smug suburban successes siring second families who want only to forget their offspring from Wife...
...twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending on them a worldly and eccentric woman -- Auntie Mame with a foreign accent -- eager to disrupt the ritual politesse of English suburban life...
...Friday Shane Stant, 22, surrendered to authorities in Phoenix, Arizona. Rumored to be the man who actually struck Kerrigan with a retractable black aluminum police baton, Stant checked into a suburban Detroit motel on Jan. 4 and left two days later. The Boston Globe reported that Stant told a source that "Harding was in on it way back." Indeed, she allegedly staged a death threat against herself in November as part of the plan...
...frame but also of his blustery tales of having worked at various times for the FBI and the CIA. Eckardt, says Crowe, "lives in a world of shadows and trench coats." Also in the class was Saunders, 24, the pastor of a small evangelical congregation in suburban Gresham. Rotund and clean cut, with the zeal of a Boy Scout, Saunders signed up for the course because of his commitment to defending religious freedom...
Stanley Orlen, a former New York City policeman now living in suburban Long Island, was so involved in the trial in late November that he was reluctant to go into surgery because he might miss the final arguments to the jury. "The surgery wasn't important; missing the summation of the trial was more important," he says. "Do you call that being hooked?" Holly Hunter, at least according to her Tonight Show testimony, is an addict. So are hundreds of lawyers, journalists and an armchair judiciary of ordinary viewers who have abandoned Luke and Laura on General Hospital...