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Long Islanders still shudder when the words LIRR and strike are mentioned in the same sentence. It's hard to imagine that this society of commuters would ever again endure the inconvenience of a transit strike. Suburban stock brokers and investment bankers might form a commuters' union and stage a counterstrike. I can imagine their slogans--"Commuters of the world unite! Break yours chains! Fight for your transit rights!" Conservative Yuppies would be transormed into radical revolutionaries...
Every Sunday evening some 11 million U.S. households watch the Fox network's raunchy hit, Married . . . With Children. But a letter-writing campaign by just one shocked viewer in suburban Detroit has prompted several national advertisers to yank their commercials from the blue-collar sitcom...
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of the imperiled landscape. In the remarkable pictures that Adams has been making since the mid-1960s, nature's stubborn beauty is forever being elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...
...Sears Merchandise Group, said he found the response "extremely gratifying." But the longer- term question is whether Sears will consistently be able to match the prices of such established discounters as Target and Toys "R" Us. Shopper Nichelle Smith, 20, who went to a Sears outlet in suburban St. Louis last week to shop for inexpensive children's clothing, appreciated the lower prices but wondered whether Sears will stay competitive. Said she: "I'm going to come back and see if this is the real story...
Only once every decade or so, a new cast of characters sweeps into TV commercials and gives the viewing public a more telling picture of the U.S. population as a whole. During the baby-booming 1950s, advertising scenes were filled with contented suburban families. By the late '60s and early '70s, those characters gave way to a groovier generation of young people. In the years following that revolution, advertisers have slavishly followed a maxim that dictates YOUTH SELLS. In TV commercials, young people seemed to be the only ones driving cars, taking vacations and buying insurance...