Word: golden
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...Pleasantville is yet another allegorical message: what Pleasantville appears to be on the surface is what it actually is--a mere surface, a facade, nothing of substance. Applied to the time period it parodies, it makes fundamentally the same observation that last year's L.A. Confidential did: the golden ideal of the color in Pleasantville becomes a pointed metaphor for color in the racial sense, tying in neatly with the movie's larger lesson that change is inevitable and desirable, if not an unmixed blessing...
...parallels the author draws between the world and computers are fascinating, especially those on why computers were so appealing to teenagers. In a sense, teenagers of that time and computers grew up together, experiencing the same growing pains. "Together, computer and kid existed in a golden age, a time when the machine was available to us unconcealed, stripped to its component parts, when adults barely understood what we were doing...for the Atari generation the evolution of the machine briefly matched that of our adolescent selves, becoming a vessel and partner, a coconspirator in our mutual coming...
...usurping of Jewish tragedy for Catholic purposes." But the flap over "who gets the martyr" is demeaning and embarrassing to the participants, and probably would appall Stein herself. There is no reason that Jews and Catholics alike cannot honor her life and achievements. In fact, it would be a golden opportunity to celebrate the new understanding between the two groups. KERRY SULLIVAN Santa Clara, Calif...
...Howl, Howl!" Philip Roth's most recent books have been about majestic unravelings, a surprisingly soothing theme in the 1990s. The way Roth patiently describes the desperation of his leading men has given mainstream American literature a respectable manliness. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest...
Near the end of the first half, the coach put Jessica in. Also near the end of the first half, the Golden Tornadoes scored, making...