Word: exurbia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene is Eastern exurbia, with its vast, manicured lawns, four-car garages and, most emblematic of the good life, swimming pools. Among those who drank too much is Neddy Merrill (Hurt Lancaster), a fortyish adman. But unlike the commuters who surround him, he nurses no hangover and fights no paunch. One day Merrill inexplicably finds himself eight miles from home dressed only in swimming trunks. Suddenly, obsessed by a strange notion, he decides to take an unearthly route home -by splashing in and out of his neighbors' pools...
...Groovy." Linda Rae Fitzpatrick, 18, was the daughter of a Greenwich, Conn., spice merchant, a blonde and dreamy-eyed dropout from Maryland's exclusive Oldfields School. Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents-both of whom had previously been divorced -she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village...
...have found another $100 mil lion business right in the backyard - of thousands of U.S. homeowners. With increasingly bigger homesites and more money in the family budget, the small garden or utility tractor, long mostly a toy for the wealthy, has become an all-round bestseller in suburbia and exurbia. Only six years ago, garden-tractor sales were a bare 27,000 throughout the U.S.; this year the industry expects them...
...expensive in the world. Frontage on the gilded Ginza shopping thoroughfare in central Tokyo sells for as much as $18 million per acre v. top prices of about $9,000,000 in choicest Manhattan, $6,500,000 in San Francisco, $4,000,000 on the French Riviera. Even in exurbia, 1½ hours away from downtown Tokyo, the going rate is $38,000 an acre. A three-bedroom suburban home that would rent for $250 a month in the U.S. can easily command $500 to $2,000 a month outside Tokyo...
...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author writes again of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irresponsible remnants of old families, and the winning eccentrics...