Word: americana
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...resuscitating of the rumbustious rednecks in a new Dukes of Hazzard. Lest you think a big-screen Dukes has no social import, Bill Gerber, the film's producer, explains the project's inspirational gestation. "After 9/11," he says, "I wanted to come up with a real red-blooded Americana movie. And I thought, A movie about the Dukes of Hazzard is exactly what I'm talking about." Director Jay Chandrasekhar insisted that the film have "three things at its core. The car has got to fly. The Dukes had to be tough and rebellious. Daisy has got to be funny...
...credit, Friedman moves on to discuss briefly the depersonalization that a frictionless, expansive, highly technical–i.e., “flat”–world may impose. He risks triviality, however, by steeping the discussion in Americana, evoking Willy Loman and citing a real-life struggling Minnesota wholesaler. Friedman’s pal the wholesaler may have a legitimate complaint that he can no longer “stop by the office, give the buyers a few Vikings’ tickets,” and maintain a friendly rapport with his customers. But the wholesaler?...
...Agamemnon is riveting in his tortured grandeur; his rage and despair tears through the scenery. As Clytemnestra, Erica R. Lipez ’05 swings plausibly from vengeance-crazed virago to shrill housewife (one of the production’s conceits is the coy use of Americana nuclear-family trappings). Lauren L. Jackson ’07, as the Leader of the Furies, exudes menace and dances wonderfully; Scottie Thompson ’05, as the doomed Trojan seer Cassandra, is eerie and compelling. Sara L. Bartel ’06 knows how to tug heartstrings while also conjuring...
...uprooted and crushed: a man carrying the body of his wife through the chaos of an earthquake in Japan, a young Korean mother as she flees the fighting around Seoul, a Vietnamese grandmother during the Tet offensive in Viet Nam. Against these even his sunnier bits of Americana--schoolchildren at play, a general store--seem to be glimpses of an imperiled tranquillity. Even an unemphatic shot of street sweepers clearing the route of a Red Army parade column describes a world where great powers lunge through, leaving lesser souls to deal with the damage...
...Charles and Diana were to depart the next morning for Palm Beach to go directly to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. Charles, who has brought along his own equipment for his favorite sport, will engage in a friendly match. Plans for the pregame festivities, rife with quirky Americana, included appearances by Disney World's Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kind of cartoon royal couple...