Word: suburbanization
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That is changing fast. Direct-to-home satellite broadcasting is making a fresh bid for a share of the television market -- not just people in the boondocks but city and suburban dwellers as well who already subscribe to cable. A new generation of satellites, sending out signals over the high-power Ku-band (rather than the old C-band, which most current dishes utilize), combined with digital compression technology, has made it possible to bring in - many more channels with much smaller dishes -- the size of an extra-large pizza. With prices coming down too, home satellite dishes are becoming...
...neighborhood ravaged by crime, and their only other options are fast-food chef and drug runner. Hoop Dreams, the powerful new documentary by Steve James, Fred Marx and Peter Gilbert, follows two basketball players from the Chicago projects as they pursue their calling through full or partial scholarships to suburban St. Joseph High School, which is a three-hour round trip and social light years away from home...
Simmelkjaer added that Blacks raised in suburbs might have more in common with suburban whites than inner-city Blacks...
...nation's two campaigns by openly gay candidates for statewide office has put homosexuality on the ballot. Guy Molinari, borough president of Staten Island -- a suburban, Republican stronghold in otherwise overwhelmingly Democratic New York City -- caused a statewide furor when he said yesterday on television that he didn't think Empire State voters would give the nod to Karen Burstein for attorney general because she was a lesbian. Today, in an interview with TIME Daily, he went further, suggesting that Burstein's lesbianism will have an effect on how she conducts herself as attorney general. Burstein, he claimed, might...
There are plenty of subsidiary characters worth their own movie, like the suburban drug dealer (Eric Stoltz) and his trippy wife (Rosanna Arquette) -- a married couple for the strung-out '90s. Part of Pulp Fiction's fun is that memorable weirdos keep popping up in the second and third hour. Part of the movie's skill is that familiar characters reveal new depths. By the end, Jackson's Jules -- in a "transitional period" from L.A.'s baddest malefactor to Tarantino's idea of masculine sanctity -- has commandeered the film. But even Jackson, brilliant in the role, knows that all good...