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That kind of faux pas was unacknowledged in the days of Ozzie and Harriet and flesh-colored Band-Aids, when one advertising message fit all customers. But like the homogenized, '50s-style households for which they were created, the tools of mass marketing are headed for the Trashmaster of history. Waves of immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa, added to an already growing minority population, are radically reshaping the face and buying habits of the "typical" American consumer...
...Harriet Doerr...
...tiny watercolor Mexican town huddles beneath pastel pink and purple mountains on the dustjacket of Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...
WIMP FACTOR 14 Ankle Deep (Harriet CD) They're from Pittsburgh. Their main instruments are an electric guitar, a ukelele, and sometimes found objects instead of drums. One of the songs seems to be about a guy who can't seem to win at Stratego. Others are called "Tale of the Loophole Guy," "How to Avoid Losing Small Objects," and "(It's OK to Work For) Rockwell International." The next They Might Be Giants? No way: Wimp Factor 14 is immeasurably better, less fake, more felt, and smarter than any of its obvious comparisons. The tunes are real tunes...
...exception is the bride, played by Nancy Travis. Her character, Harriet, reaches a point where she is just as deep as any other romantic interest in a typical comedy--knee-deep, that is. But it's not the fact that the characters are two-dimensional that makes this movie disappointing; most comedies have flat characters. It's the fact that none of them have anything to offer the audience that sinks the film...