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Many of the biggest high rollers were New York City banks that lavished loans on everyone from Latin American dictators to Donald Trump. At the same time, they helped finance the 1980s real estate boom that has filled U.S. cities with vacant office towers and dotted suburbia with empty condominiums. "Citicorp was hurt the most," says Thomas Brown, a Paine Webber banking analyst. "Then come Chemical, Chase and Bank of New York...
Edward Scissorhands Spooky-cute Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder -- they look like the figures on a Transylvanian wedding cake -- make ideally mismatched lovers in Tim Burton's witty fable, in which a sweet-souled alien comes to suburbia, makes a few friends and scurries back home. E.T., meet...
...when he finally soloed in the first Beverly Hills Cop, the context was artfully fashioned for him. He was a mean-streets guy dislocatingly, dangerously plunked down on the bland streets of America's ultimate suburbia. He was poised between ambition and anger, between the need to ingratiate himself with the predominantly white mass audience and, at the same time, the need to tell it hard truths. He was a performer running risks with his audience, but more important, with his slightly schizoid self. Destructive possibilities -- of the comedian's always tenuous bond with his audience, therefore of career -- were...
What often passes for Asian ghettos bustle with the pride and promise of middle-class America with an exotic cast. Churches hold services in English -- and Korean, Chinese and Tagalog. The curved eaves of Buddhist temples share suburbia with the flat roofs of ranch-style homes. Asian shopping malls are stocked with everything from disposable diapers to dried sea cucumbers that sell for up to $1,000 per lb. Signs in English and Spanish compete with those in the Korean Hankul alphabet and in Chinese ideograms. When Roman letters appear, they are often tricked out in the rococo accents...
...certain to solve the mystery before Dr. Greville does. As he explains, "My failure to recognize the obvious, in common with almost everyone else concerned, is a measure of the true mystery of the Pangbourne Massacre." In other words, as Ballard has suggested in other tales, the sleep of suburbia produces monsters...