Word: microcosms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST PICTURE SHOW. Peter Bogdanovich subtly and precisely evokes the paralysis of the 1950s in the microcosm of a dying Texas town called Anarene...
...quiet country town is almost palpably evil, a microcosm of the easy enmity and casual brutality that David and Amy hoped to leave behind them. It is a place isolated, almost abstracted, from the rest of the world. The villagers regard David with a cordial disdain. Amy is seen as one of their own who has deserted them and returned with slightly lofty airs. Some of the men of the village, while helping fix up a rented farmhouse for the couple, make casual sport of ogling Amy and discussing her attractions...
Tenuous Alliance. For his project, Corry zeroed in on 85th Street between Central Park and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side, largely because of its diversity. A kind of Manhattan in microcosm, the block includes among its 1,500 black, white and Puerto Rican residents a number of welfare families, a man who owns his own ad agency, some composers, some middle-class types, and a few hookers and junkies. Corry rented an apartment on the street, then set out to find "The Real City" from the stoops and sidewalks...
...that the play lacks grand themes. Its underlying concerns are death, love and the mutilation of love in the microcosm of the family. Some of the greatest plays of the Western world revolve around these subjects. But Albee has simply not given them any dramatic urgency or compelling emotional life. When All Over is not dead, it is dull, and mostly it is deadly dull. An unseen man is dying in a curtained-off area at the rear of the stage. Spread across the front and center are the people who have been closest to him during his lifetime. Each...
...Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes over 1,600 people on welfare, as well as top-salaried executives and professional...