Word: alienating
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That's not to say that the Chapmans' puerile offerings will rise to a place of lasting esteem. No, the point is that work once seen as scandalous takes on new meaning as culture is rocked by alien, disquieting expressions and then slowly evolves. And there are works in this show that warrant respect and have had it from critics and gallerygoers for some time...
...many immigrants come to the U.S. in search of a better life for their children and grandchildren. But in order to achieve the goal set by their elders, the younger generation must assimilate, and when they do, they become strangers who speak a different language and live by an alien code. "The grandparent has achieved his American Dream," says Schlesinger, "but at a terrible cost." Exacerbating the alienation is the fact that because the Americanized grandchild is more adept at navigating the new world, says Teri Wunderman, a psychologist who works with Hispanic families in Miami, "there's less...
...well in a live setting. "Softly," the band's next single, was notable for its growing intensity, while during "Fly," most of the audience was happily jumping up and down. Louise Rhodes's voice shone in "B Line" and was then completely buried beneath the clanking industrial beats of "Alien." "Grecki," the final song before a short encore, was a crowd favorite...
...biggest movie of 1984 was "E.T.," the highest-grossing film of the 1980s and the fourth highest of all time. Many a senior at one time snuggled into bed along with a stuffed alien...
...Adolescence is a great period of time to write about," says Jason Katims, once a writer for MSCL and creator of the acclaimed but short-lived romantic drama Relativity, whose brooding alien-human love story Roswell follows three teenage aliens as they evade discovery and seek their origins. "It's where so much of you is formed and the themes that will follow you your whole adult life are born." And doing a show about it is a great means of getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy...