Word: suburbanized
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...flier is advertising a campus appearancenext week by Gloria G. Hardy, a social worker atSouth Suburban College, Chicago, and E. MichaelJones, the editor of Fidelity magazine...
Assuming the alias of John Hull, Stevens sets about his task, scaring himself with his facility at selling the product. Rapidly ascending through the drug ring hierarchy, he begins to work with David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) a suburban attorney with high aspirations. Together, they hit the big time, and Stevens gets the opportunity to enjoy the sweet life of a dealer--cool car, big penthouse, beautiful girlfriend, the works...
...right thing by ousting Gus Savage after six terms in the House of Representatives. Savage, 66, was beaten by fellow Democrat Melvin Reynolds, a 40-year-old black educator and Rhodes scholar, who won 63% of the vote. Unsuccessful in two previous challenges, Reynolds benefited this time from suburban additions to the remapped district and growing voter disgust with Savage's incendiary provocations. The race turned sinister as Election Day neared when drive-by shooters fired at Reynolds' leased car. The candidate was slightly injured by flying glass. Some in Reynolds' camp suspected Savage supporters of instigating the attack. Appearing...
...nourishment. Cultural critic Camille Paglia, who has celebrated the Dionysian power of rock music in her writings, believes the genre suffered an identity crisis as it moved further from the rural immediacy of folk and blues and lost its restless, questing spirit. "In rock you're getting middle-class suburban kids who have no experience of anything except what they hear on the radio," she says. "Country music speaks emotional truth. Rock has drifted from it." Says Paul Shaffer, David Letterman's bandleader: "Country is soul music for white people, and people always return to soul music, because that...
...Dedham Hilton is a complex of fake-looking brown brick stuck in the middle of a suburban no man's land. And yet, on this cold Saturday night, the parking lot was full of cars from places like Needham and Stoneham...