Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...Ross, is more rooted in television as Americana than in the scary implications of too much technology. It deals with our nostalgia for '50s-sit-com bliss--which, we all realize, never really existed. It is also a graceful, somewhat fragile story, and, with its playful metaphorical mixing of color and black-and-white, it is a visual treat as well...
...Ozzie and Harriet. Once there, the brother and sister try to play along with the "Honey, I'm home!" fakeness of the town, but they can't withhold all of their real world sensibilities. As the ideas they bring with them (art, sex, danger) leak into the town, color starts appearing on roses, on houses and eventually on people. Not knowing what will happen the next day and learning to live with real human emotions are what turn the denizens of Pleasantville into genuine human beings. It's not such an easy moral, though: the introduction of freedom in Pleasantville...
...however artificial and hokey, is cute, and at times beautiful. There's a deep affection for the old golly-gee school of American television, even though the film sets out to make the point that reality, however ugly, is better than the monotonous trap of sitcom life. Freedom and color, we learn, are better than Pleasantville's forced cheeriness in various shades of gray...
...newcomer to make a place for herself or himself. Many of us are trying. But Latinos cannot just keep our eyes on the prize; we have to look down inward to our thirst for a political voice, around at the desert of the current political landscape, and across color lines to those in majority and African-American communities who can help end the drought...