Word: suburbanized
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...rise in the U.S. The accounts range from the woman who saw the face of Jesus in a forkful of spaghetti on a billboard in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to the pilgrim who says he was healed during a visit to Medjugorje, built a shrine in his backyard in suburban New Jersey, and now plays host to thousands of visitors hoping to encounter the Virgin on the first Sunday of each month...
...Marinaro, who played Joey on NBC, seemed mortified: "Let's just say I wouldn't do Joey Buttafuoco: The Series." But Marinaro, who nicely captured the obtuse swagger of a suburban stud, was only one of those to profit from saturation coverage of Amy's shame. Amy was another. For the NBC movie, producers paid $80,000 toward her bail and smaller sums to her boyfriend Paul Makely, to would-be gunman Stephen Sleeman and to PEOPLE reporter Maria Eftimiades. The Buttafuocos earned $300,000 for the CBS movie, and New York Post columnist Amy Pagnozzi was a paid consultant...
Pannell and his staff understand what they are up against and bristle when students' standardized-test scores are compared with those of more affluent or suburban schools. Only 1 in 10 children comes from a home with two parents. Three-quarters live below the poverty line. Some come from shelters. In the morning, before school opens, 250 children -- half the student body -- line up outside waiting for a free breakfast. As the month wears on and parents' incomes run out, the line grows longer. Some children have not had dinner the night before and complain of a headache. "This...
...circles literary and otherwise. There are few contemporary writers who have attempted to tackle such disparate topics and with such success as Barnes has. With alarming competence and brio, he ranges from sexual jealousy to disquisitions on art, from poignant, elegant meditations on love to the nightmare that is suburban life...
...simultaneity. It is the state people dismiss as having "no history," and yet it is strewn with old missions from the Spanish occupancy. It is the state where the place names on highway maps speak of a mythic Catholic past (San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo) and a bland suburban present (Riverside, Pleasant Hill...