Word: suburbans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Among the larger projects, besides the Gap building, are the Nike European Headquarters, an environmental-studies center at Oberlin College that will produce more energy than it consumes, the Monsanto Child Development Center in Missouri, and a new community in Indiana called Coffee Creek Center, which will work against suburban sprawl by establishing a compact and pleasant small town...
...rent "Titanic," driving to Barnes and Noble to buy "A Civil Action" and "Cold Mountain." Every so often these people snuck a glance up at the bridge to nowhere; after all, the ugly, low-hanging structure (which they were paying for) cast a heinous shadow over their idyllic suburban landscapes, insulting their aesthetic sensibilities and corrupting their children. And it paid to look up occasionally, if only to make sure you weren't hit by falling debris...
...Kiss 108, then they probably don't have a clue about the Boston radio scene. Upton is mad that Kiss 108 doesn't play enough "black" music; Mehta cries that Jam'n isn't serving as the "sounding board for black concerns to suburban white listeners" that it would be, while WILD (which was supposedly a great "sounding board" in the 1960s) is too small...
Forgive me for questioning the assumption of your writers that radio should play "black music" to teach white people a lesson or two. And excuse me for pointing out that both of your writers seem to look at their home cities--suburban Baltimore for Mehta and somewhere in the New York area for Upton--as the standard-bearers of racial integration and harmony, while claiming that Boston is a backward, segregated, parochial city...
What they have to realize is that commercial radio stations will never play more than 40 songs because they know that suburban dupes and office managers will keep their stereos and walkmen tuned in for at least a few minutes at a time--in other words, there's a market for the stuff. And those 40 songs will tend to be from a narrow range of tastes--the rule in commercial radio is "specialize to capitalize." If you want to hear a broader range of music, you have to look elsewhere. This is as true of classical music, for example...