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suburbia

suh bur bee uh

  • n  a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
  • n  suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

  • Leave It to Beaver is back in living rooms across AmericaA house like any other house in the vast expanse of television suburbia.
  • We think of Updike and Cheever as the masters of postwar American suburbia, of its sunlit euphorias and its drunken discontents.
  • His answer to a postwar housing crisis created a new kind of home life and culture: suburbia.
News & Articles

  • Stop Keeping Up With The Joneses - They're Broke
    It used to be that spending money on status symbols for the sake of flaunting your wealth was an activity reserved for celebrities and millionaires. That has all changed. Conspicuous consumption, what was once referred to as "keeping up with the Joneses," has brought the lifestyles of the rich and famous to suburbia.
    June 8, 2013 - Forbes
  • Police: Pot ring busted in Cabot
    Ever watch the Showtime TV show "Weeds," about the pot-dealing mom living in picture-perfect suburbia? They don't have to watch it in Cabot, because some folks are apparently living it. Cabot Police have arrested of eight people , including three minors, who cops say were involved in a pot-dealing ring that sold marijuana from a house in a quiet Cabot neighborhood. The owner of the Wedgewood ...
    June 6, 2013 - Arkansas Times
  • the STORY
    Identical twin brothers from Jewish suburbia, Ezra and Adeev Potash, are Omaha's unlikely gift to the jazz world. Their soul and funk-infused horn playing has everyone from Big Sam Williams to Wynton Marsalis singing their praises.
    June 5, 2013 - The Reader
Quotes

  • Barnaby Joyce in The Australian
    The ETS plan was "a piece of policy that comes direct from the manic monkey cafe of inner-suburbia nirvana-ville straight to you", Senator Joyce said.
  • James Howard Kunstler in Hillsdale Independent
    We invest most of our late 20th-century wealth in a living arrangement with no future,Mr. Kunstler writes in an article published by Orion magazine in January 2007. "American suburbia represents the greatest misallocation of resources in...
  • Raymond C. Fisher in Guardian Unlimited
    It's set in the 1950s and it's about a couple in suburbia and dealing with moving from the big city to a suburban lifestyle, and the effects it has on their family and the loss of the dreams and aspirations of what they wanted to do with their life... Leonardo DiCaprio http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHizCBESi-It084WWuu0Up0xZfpGQ CBS News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/13/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main3160650.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFbGQmq3VVAJB1DutsbN74hNh_yhg Aug 13, 2007 96082 127566 subversion Although California certainly has valid interests in preventing election fraud and corruption, and perhaps in avoiding the subversion of the Electoral College, these interests did not justify the complete disabling of the vote-swapping...

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