Word: suburbanization
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...lived somewhere distant like Indiana or California, I might have found comfort in raging against the injustice of East Coast elitism. My problem was that by my senior year in high school, I was already an insufferable East Coast snob. So by the social standards of suburban Connecticut in the mid-1960s, the multiple rejections consigned me to the outer darkness, destined to be shunned on commuter trains, blackballed at country clubs and never allowed to buy a home in a community with four-acre zoning. I would have to plod through life stigmatized by the knowledge that...
LOWERING HIS HANDICAP, NUNN TOO SOON. Suburban Washington's Burning Tree Golf Club is not considered a politically expedient course because of its policy of excluding women. But Senator Sam Nunn has until now preferred working on his golf handicap rather than his electoral one. By resigning last week the Georgia Democrat appeared to be teeing up for a presidential race in 1992. Of course, he can always follow in Lloyd Bentsen's cleats and rejoin his old club if he loses...
...Came from Outer Space and Friday the 13th Part 3 have not improved with age. Imax Systems has installed a 3-D theater in Vancouver and has plans to build two more, in Galveston, Texas, and Taiwan, but there are no plans yet to put them in typical suburban malls. Moreover, as glorious as the new technology may seem today, it is likely to be perceived by an increasingly jaded public as just another gimmick. "People get used to things so fast," says Imax's Kroitor. "After a while they ask, 'Where...
...genres are cunningly fused in the rich and absorbing new novel by Clive Barker, a horror writer (The Books of Blood, Weaveworld) and filmmaker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) who is branching into fantasy. While The Great and Secret Show is populated by a DeMille-size cast of pubescent schoolgirls, suburban worthies, seedy entertainers and even a winsome apeman, its central antagonists are a mad genius straight from science fiction and a deranged postal clerk who dreams of magical powers...
While Soto says the voters of the Fourth Congressional District--which stretches from the wealthy suburban community of Newton to the ethnically diverse, working class Fall River--deserve to know whether Frank has contracted the AIDS virus, some fellow Republicans think Soto has gone...