Word: suburbia
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...Shopping malls and movies were the two means of exercise," says Smith. Her four oldersiblings guided her intellectual development fromthe start. One of her sisters moved back home whenSmith was entering adolescence; she took Smith toSan Francisco just at the age she needed to breakout of suburbia. "When my brother Conrad left forcollege," Smith says, "he left me Death inVenice to read. I was in the third grade...
...young novelist's portrait of affluent suburbia in the 1970s...
...They stick with one another through thin and thin. Father Homer, mother Marge, 10-year-old Bart, eight-year-old Lisa and baby Maggie seem to be a typical sitcom family -- the Honeymooners with kids, the Flintstones in suburbia -- with typically outlandish dilemmas to face and resolve each week. But there the similarity ends. Since it sprang in 1990 from cartoon spots on The Tracey Ullman Show, The Simpsons has proved uniquely dense and witty. And thanks to top writers, directors and actors in the care of creator Matt Groening and comedy veteran Jim Brooks, it has stayed that...
Topics range just as broadly as in more elaborate drama, from the orphanage hardships of Boys Town to the comic angst of Jewish suburbia, from Edith Wharton's frustrated sex life to Lynn Redgrave's thwarted longing for her father's esteem, from the Los Angeles riots to personal calamities of illness and grief. Actors vary from the well-established (Redgrave, three-time Tony Award winner Irene Worth and Regina Taylor of TV's I'll Fly Away) to the + succes d'estime (Eric Bogosian, Anna Deavere Smith) to the yearning-for- discovery (Sherry Glaser, Claudia Shear, Barnaby Spring). Some...
...this campus, commitment to the pantheon of liberal causes may be the best means of expurgating the accumulated bourgeois guilt of a life led in suburbia and private high school...