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...promise of adventure and freedom, a setting for emotional reunions and teary farewells. Over the years the flying public, in exchange for low fares and frequent service, has learned to put up with a lot--overcrowded hubs, vanishing airline meals and that great marketing coup of the late 20th century, the nonrefundable airline ticket. But after Sept. 11, all the old complaints about air travel were suddenly rendered moot. Airports are now high-stress zones where only two issues really matter: Is it safe to fly, and can it be made safe without turning air travel into such a debilitating...
Mendes waxes even more poetic about the U.S.--it's no coincidence both of his films revolve around American archetypes like gangsters and suburban teenagers. "This is the country of myth in the 20th century," he says. "There are very few others that can bear the weight of a big story. It's one of the reasons The Godfather, the closest we've come to Shakespeare in the 20th century, wouldn't work in any other country in the world." The America of his films may be troubled, but Mendes talks like an immigrant for whom Hollywood...
...make a sketch on the back of a cigarette packet, then go back to the studio and paint them in the way I remember them - or should like them to be." His painting of a pavilion, with light streaming out past an empty bench, has conscious echoes of mid-20th century American artist Edward Hopper, whose most iconic canvas is Nighthawks (1942). Stuart Free, who graduated from London's Central St. Martins art school in 1994, has painted 360 pictures of north London, which sell steadily through a local gallery. He doesn't mind being called an "urban realist...
...promise of adventure and freedom, a setting for emotional reunions and teary farewells. Over the years the flying public, in exchange for low fares and frequent service, has learned to put up with a lot-overcrowded hubs, vanishing airline meals and that great marketing coup of the late 20th century, the nonrefundable airline ticket. But after Sept. 11, all the old complaints about air travel were suddenly rendered moot. Airports are now high-stress zones where only two issues really matter: Is it safe to fly, and can it be made safe without turning air travel into such a debilitating...
...grown up: As a nation whose civilian population largely escaped the horrors of the 20th century, it's been said that Americans can't possibly understand what it's like to live under the fear of imminent death known to so many of our allies. Now, some of that has come home. We have seen destruction and death, and we have survived, sadder and more watchful than before...