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...thing, it's a break for them. A new queen is about to hatch, so the old queen tells all her trusty workers they're moving out. They get to gorge themselves on honey for a couple hours instead of flying three miles to find the best clover available for nectar. Then they fly off to a convenient tree and just sit there while a few unlucky bees try to find a new place to set up housekeeping...
...good point. In its messy, likable way, Thelma & Louise is getting at even larger, more mysterious issues. Carol Clover, a film scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, says the movie is trying to study, among other topics, "the distance between men and women, the desire for each sex to separate itself." It also attempts to look at the opposite side of that coin: the increasingly dangerous ways in which the sexes come together. Novelist James Carroll wrote last week in the New Republic that "when men and women reduce each other to sexual objects, they take the first step...
Since this movie demonstrates Clover's point, and since it places that point in a context that is satirically aware of the violent and depersonalizing traditions of our visual popular culture, it just may be that Thelma & Louise is in fact better than any of its exegetes have made it sound. It remains the most intriguing movie now in release. No other cheers one's argumentative spirit, stirs one's critical imagination, and awakens one's protective affection in quite the way Thelma & Louise does...
Except for the barking of stray dogs, the Inlet is a quiet neighborhood, not because of its tranquillity but because of its gaps -- vacant lots where houses were razed and replaced by fields of pink clover, Queen Anne's lace and beer-bottle shards. Here and there are anachronistic gestures to elegance -- carved laurels in a window casement, a Victorian turret, delicate porch columns -- that lend the scene the haunted air of a horror-movie set. At times the Inlet seems just a bad joke. Standing over one bunker-style housing & project is a billboard touting one of developer Donald...
...roots. When Oceanographer Melissa Denny decided a few years ago that it was time to stay home and cultivate her children, she and her husband bought a house in Everett, Wash., on half an acre of mud and blackberries. Her staunchly evergreen neighbors watched in amazement as she planted clover and rye grass, let it grow a foot high, then plowed it under. Raised vegetable beds and fruit trees began to appear. Then local children gathered, holding tricycle races on the sawdust paths. "They all come over to graze," she laughs. "I have to grow twice as many strawberries...