Word: inhabited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dislocation from the things and relationships of routine life, and chronic elevator stomach, as if the Fall from Grace were a perpetual state of being. Updike's afflicted are invariably middle-aged, middle-class males who, with their wives, ex-wives, mistresses, natural and acquired children, seem to inhabit a blue version of the Lands' End catalog. Alcohol abuse, infidelity and a numbing lack of faith lie just beneath the bright madras and sturdy poplin...
Arthur Miller is the American Ibsen, a gifted domestic dramatist who instead prefers political crusading, onstage and off. He and his characters have seemed to inhabit a world of clear-cut right and wrong. This personal history gives poignant impact to Miller's new one-acts, collectively titled Danger: Memory!, at New York City's Lincoln Center. One is a kitchen slice of life between elderly friends, the other a charged and almost surreal interview between a hostile police detective and the father of a murder victim. What links them is a parallel revelation: in each, a man about Miller...
...teacher trying to put a dispassionate face on a passionate nature. And Dennis Hopper brings some fresh, forceful observation and a jittery melancholy to his characterization of a onetime star athlete who has become the town drunk. There is a quirky authenticity about these figures, and the landscape they inhabit, that one does not expect to find in movies whose chief business is to warm the heart, not to inform it. Hoosiers may not transcend the banality of its story line, but it does take its shot. And comes close to making the movie equivalent of a three-point play...
...McGuire, claims he "always thought the play could have been about truck drivers. You would still have the natural leader, the clown, the one who is quietly loyal, the one who knows that the best of himself will never be expressed." Truck drivers would not talk so gracefully or inhabit a world in which verbal violence is commonplace and bursts of physical violence so shocking. But in its evocation of the judgmental and forgiving ways of friendship -- of how a long acquaintance enables people to divine and condone each other's darkest secrets -- The Common Pursuit does indeed portray what...
...Honduran tropics. O-Zone, Theroux's first venture into science fiction, is also a survival story. His 21st century America is a nation that has lived fast, aged young and offers life-support systems only to those who can afford them. That would be the Owners, an elite who inhabit high-rise fortresses in Manhattan. The armed towers keep out the "aliens," variously known as Starkies, Skells, Trolls and Roaches. They are part of a vast underclass, disinherited by global economic collapse and lingering radioactive wastes. The O-Zone itself is the result of a nuclear-dump accident...