Word: suburbanization
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Nicholson Baker is a subatomic physicist of fiction, a quantum suburban Proust. He is a wizard at anatomizing the micromechanics of mental life, at charting the quicksilver zigzags of decision and indecision, a writer who can spin out a mock epic from a pair of broken shoelaces...
...people in any field have demonstrated the power of a single impassioned voice as well as Peggy Charren. As head of Action for Children's Television, the activist group she founded 23 years ago in the living room of her suburban Boston home, Charren has been a tireless fighter for better children's TV. Because of her efforts, commercials aimed at kids are less manipulative than they once were; the hosts of children's shows, for example, can no longer hawk products to gullible young viewers. Even when she failed to bring about change, her constant, nagging presence...
...assassination revelation, it was a revelation of another kind. In telling his life story, of how he wound up in the Carousel Club in 1963, the Name was telling a story of an American life -- of an America -- far different from the one I'd known in my suburban hometown...
...dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another and to the street; materials and basic styles are reassuringly traditional. With any luck, in Kentlands the early 21st century will be the good old days...
...dreary. Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, a brilliant and relentless husband-and-wife team of architects and planners, are devoting their lives to convincing Americans that when it comes to neighborhoods and towns, they can make 'em like they used to. Kentlands, a new town in the suburban Maryland countryside outside Washington, is the couple's most ambitious project to get under way. Streets are narrow; houses are close to one another and to the street; materials and basic styles are reassuringly traditional. With any luck, in Kentlands the early 21st century will be the good old days...