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...American dream of owning a home has been taking quite a beating lately, with the price of a new house averaging $100,100. But residents of Florida can dream again, thanks to William J. Levitt, 77. Known as the father of American suburbia for his Levittowns, the master builder constructed huge complexes of inexpensive housing after World War II on the edges of major American cities. Now Levitt is back with a grand new project-a $2 billion community that will go up on the outskirts of Orlando and be called Villa Poinciana. Its 26,000 homes will be priced...
...because Mickey suffers from a healthy psyche. She is tempted, she even yields slightly to Scotty, the man who offers to bring her fantasies to fruition. But Mickey never takes the plunge. "I don't really know you," she tells Scotty and returns quickly to her familiar world: sedate suburbia and reliable...
Wide-lawned narrow-minded suburbia parodies itself well enough without help from mediocre attempts at satire. As the prototypical Valley Girl, Sarah Fitzpatrick plays a girl we can all hate, but that no one knows. Mouse? Grody. "His hair is so 70s." Would you believe Mrs. Fitzpatrick values material things? "God, I love being rich...
...spectators who lined the green curbsides or climbed the brown hillsides arrived astride their own ten-speeds, even bicycles built for two-and-a-half (the baby on the back fender). It was the freest event in the most expensive Olympics, and a sunny Sunday for a picnic in suburbia, where neighborhood residents favored hearts of palm and caviar over potato salad and baked beans...
These changes were none too solid, though. When the soldiers returned home, they wanted their jobs back, and all the pressures of a male-run society combined to create the age of domesticity and "togetherness," and a baby boom in suburbia. The few women who kept claiming a political role came to be regarded as harmless or eccentric. The formidable Margaret Chase Smith, who served 23 years in the Senate, most of them as the lone woman there, was occasionally mentioned as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. But it was typical of the times that when somebody asked...