Word: suburbanization
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Hello Again abuses the talent of its cast with an inexcuseably trite fairy tale of a plot. Lucy Chadman (Shelley Long) is a frumpy, suburban housewife who feels somewhat displaced in the glitzy Manhattan cocktail set that she mingles with for the sake of her ambitious husband (Corbin Bernsen). "Isn't this party just suhblime!" coos Lucy's best friend and society beauty, Kim (Sela Ward). But nervous Lucy commits one social faux pas after another, culminating in a grand exit down the balustrade where she exposes more than just her sheepish grin...
...company's trading floor to an automated bank machine elsewhere in Manhattan. Sesko punches its buttons, withdraws $100 and puts the money in his pocket. The cash, he says, "gives me a sense of security." Then he climbs onto a commuter train and sleeps all the way home to suburban Connecticut...
...sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...
...past three years alone, the profile of the average jeep owner has undergone a substantial overhaul. According to Chrysler, the premier producer of American jeeps and owner of the Jeep trademark since it bought American Motors Corp. last August, 52% of Jeep purchasers today live in urban or suburban areas, as opposed to 39% in 1984; 60% hold managerial or professional jobs, against 49% three years ago; 60% are college graduates, up from 45%; and they have a median income of $57,000, up from $42,000. "It's a very upscale, young buyer, basically within that spectrum called baby...
...sharply rising number of American professionals. In all kinds of settings across the U.S., from country houses to suburban high-rise apartments, more and more people need only take a few steps from their breakfast tables to their desks to start a day's work. Of course, working at home for pay has been around for as long as women have taken in knitting, doctors have put up shingles on their houses and writers have set up typewriters in their dens. But the advent of personal computers and other advanced technology has vastly expanded the range of occupations that...