Word: surburbanization
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Preston Foster, as a surburban husband fed up with his wife, three children, and his wall-to-wall carpeting way of life, could not be more harried and sincere. By the end of the evening, however, his carpet fixation has become only an intra-mural joke...
...just as Lana, turned brunette for the occasion, is synthetic Italian, so is the movie. Filmed in Naples, it deals with such elemental matters as poverty, sex and jealousy, but Flame is no more earthy than a surburban child patting mud pies. The plot has Lana, down to her last lira, befriended by a true-blue simpleton (Bonar Colleano), who promptly falls in love with her. Moving into his apartment, Lana falls in love, instead, with his roommate. Singer Carlos Thompson, who looks remarkably like TV's Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and acts with all the intensity...
...times more than, say, a resident of Amherst. Fire insurance can be based on the relative danger of a community, but there are too many other variables connected with automobile driving to calculate rates on a zone system. For example, a businessman who races into Boston every day from surburban Weston runs a far greater accident risk than a Boston school teacher who may drive her car only a few blocks per week. Yet the businessman pays rates that are much lower...
Bohlen, from Washington, is counselor of the State Department, and Burden, also from Washington, is Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force. Daley is from Andover, and is a member of the investment firm of F.S. Moseley and Company, and Kilgour is president of the Cincinnati and Surburban Telephone Company. Wyzanski is from Boston and is U.S. District Judge in Massachusetts...
Thus, the Democrats, who count heavily on urban votes, have a ticket top heavy with Irish Catholics. The Republican slate, on the other hand, has a great many Protestants with English names--who live largely in surburban and rural districts...