Word: suburbias
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...even as the world economy weakened, some businesses boomed as never before. Americans by the millions escaped to the charms of E.T., a 3-ft.-tall space creature lost in suburbia. The movie of his odyssey, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, became by far the biggest smash in motion picture history, bringing in $305 million at the box office by mid-December...
...More collects Rooney's recent loose change. This compilation of syndicated columns is refreshingly freed from its predecessor's videoese syntax and pictorial tricks. Here the humor is literate, affecting and familiar. Rooney rolls up his sleeves, hits his 1920-model Underwood, and writes about his native suburbia with the exhilaration of a button-down surrealist...
...house like any other house in the vast expanse of television suburbia...
...resent your headline "Suburban' Abbie Hoffman Encourages Civil Disobedience" (6/29/82). I live in a town called Fineview, population 87, with an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent in the summer and 60.5 percent in the winter. It is scarcely suburbia...
DIED. John Cheever, 70, elegiac storyteller of suburbia; after a long illness; in Ossining, N.Y. (see BOOKS...