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...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Jiggle the Creek on Friday, March 24. AIDS Brigade Benefit on Saturday, March 25. Shellac on Wednesday, March 29. Dambuilders on Thursday, March 30. Upstairs: Band of Susans on Thursday, March 23. Mommy & I Are One on Friday, March 24. 360's on Saturday, March...
...movie's frequently plausible situations make the viewer uncomfortable. Motaba, the incurable, fatal African disease brought over by a monkey, can't be laughed off. Nor can scenes of the town's isolation under martial law. The formerly bucolic Cedar Creek is surrounded with barbed wire. Heavily guarded "camps" are constructed in which people march in, and emerge as corpses. The final solution for dealing with the infected, and thus incurable, is also disturbing--bomb them and destroy the virus...
...isolated. One, Guerneville, 65 miles north of San Francisco, was closed to nonresidents as the Russian River rose toward the rooftops, and 465 citizens were airlifted to higher ground. A rural community called Rio Linda, a satellite of Sacramento, was so badly betrayed by a sandy bed called Dry Creek that a survivor named Rose Marie Simmons could only gasp, "It's real sad, real sad, looking at the place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast...
...Walnut Creek, California...
...exhibit presents a startling variety of works considered "American." It opens with three objects representing at first glance Native American, European and African-American cultural heritage: a contemporary sculpture by Creek Indian artist Joseph Johns, Gilbert Stuart's iconized portrait of George Washington, and a rubbing from a Cambridge Cemetery gravestone which reads, "Cicely, Negro, Late Servant to Ye Revd. Mr. William Brattle...