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...dreamer but rather a man who takes earnest pride in his life as a father and propane salesman. If the Simpson family remains on a jaunty, fruitless ride to escape the banalities and inconveniences of middle-class life, the Hills--Hank, his wife Peggy and son Bobby--are a grimmer, reality-based lot, who doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less wide reaching than the Simpsons in its comedy; absent is the nonstop barrage of cultural references ranging from Buckminster Fuller to Sammy Davis Jr. King of the Hill mines its humor instead...
...problem in telling the history of the West is that it is really two stories. One is a grand adventure, the inspiring story of how Americans tamed the wilderness, linked the continent, formed a nation--the white man's story. The other is a grimmer tale, of the native peoples who were displaced and subjugated in the process. The West tries to tell both simultaneously and does so with admirable evenhandedness. To be sure, some of the most powerful sequences are those of white men behaving badly and of Native Americans making their last, futile stands against the invaders--like...
...described her native city as a vast hostelry of "forty times forty" churches, where small pigeons rose above the golden domes and the floors below were polished by kisses of the faithful. Under the Soviet regime, with its Stalinist housing bunkers and oppressive military bearing, the city became a grimmer place, but one that was anchored, orderly, predictable, even if, to many outsiders, drab and downcast. By 1976, the British journalist Geoffrey Bocca could describe the scene as a "crushing concatenation of faceless, shabby, shoving, rude and, above all, indifferent, uninterested people...
Horrific as the pictures are, observers for the U.N. and the Organization of American States returned from Gonaives last week with even grimmer detail. In the predawn hours of April 22, they reported, soldiers and paramilitary gunmen surrounded Raboteau, a slum where Aristide support runs strong, and shot down men, women and children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon...
...journalistic force, Silverlake Life seems to have been animated less by artistic than by therapeutic impulses: filmmaking was a way for Tom and Mark to cope with their grief. Which is not to deny the power of Silverlake Life, only to warn that television doesn't get any grimmer...