Word: suburbanization
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Only the most expendable men are boxers. All of the fighters who ever died -- nearly 500 since 1918, when the Ring book started to keep tabs -- haven't the political constituency of a solitary suburban child who falls off a trampoline. Observers who draw near enough to fights and fighters to think that they see something of value, something pure and honest, are sure to mention the desperate background and paradoxical gentleness, which even Tyson has in some supply. "I guess it's pretty cool," he says, to be the natural heir to John L. Sullivan, to hold an office...
...Administration's aggressive congressional liaison from 1981 to 1983. Before joining the White House staff last year, he worked for four years as a lobbyist at Timmons & Co., a Washington consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling on pretzels from a huge jar on his desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop...
...catalogs, groceries grow on windowsills, cranes hoist trees onto city rooftops. From coast to coast, nursery owners say their business has doubled. Even baby boomers who did not have the remotest interest in the subject two years ago now rattle off the Latin names of their plants and comb suburban garden stores for just the right style of Japanese weed whipper...
...busy trying to sound like Classic Belters Brenda Lee and Lesley Gore, but they share separate turf. Lee and Gore and other icons of the '60s had an edge in their voice, an ache in their heart. The pube rockers put a tune over with a kind of suburban satisfaction that can be cute and even, like Tiffany, buoyant and appealing but never goes any deeper than the label...
Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...