Word: suburbans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell any of this to Randee Bank, 38, who admits she's a cosmetic-surgery junkie. You name it and the suburban New York housewife has had it done: Botox injected in her forehead to paralyze the facial muscles and prevent wrinkles from forming, liposuction on her stomach and thighs, fat transferred from her behind to her face--and lots of laser work. She's had pulse lasers to erase broken blood vessels in her cheeks, diode lasers to remove the hair on her upper lip and an Erbium laser to zap the crow's-feet around her eyes...
...other autumn afternoon, the yellow-helmeted Cougars doused their faces in the water fountain and strolled onto the football field for practice. But the sideline chatter at this suburban campus outside Sacramento, Calif., was anything but casual. Over the summer Center High School's onetime journalism teacher, baseball coach and enthusiastic gridiron announcer had changed from David Warfield to Dana Rivers--and lost her job as a result. Even the jocks were in shock. "He? She? Whatever!" said Fidel Ramos, a hefty linebacker. "They shouldn't fire her." Sophomore Kevin Owen agreed: "It's not his fault...
...that all these cartoons are inane and depend on slap-stick comedy or just good old plain perversion to draw (sometimes uncomfortable) chuckles. Some of these cartoons attempt to make legitimate social commentary! The Beckers, for example, a parody of the '50s ideal of the suburban family, addresses the important and apparently relevant issue of teenage cannibalism. My other favorite, No Neck Joe, is not quite so high-brow. The title is pretty self-explanatory. The main character is a little human with no neck and the whole of the plot rests of the fact that No Neck...
...wrestling" that suddenly appeared this fall. Or those eerily good-looking people who stand holding doors open for no apparent reason. Or maybe you've noticed that this fall the Square took a step towards homogeneity. The evidence is conclusive--Abercrombie & Fitch, no longer content with suburban malls, has jutted itself into Harvard Square...
...acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata's appearance and his reality would surely surprise most of his neighbors, especially when he confesses, "I feel I have not really been living anywhere or anytime, not for the future and not in the past and not at all of-the-moment...