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Only 50 years after the nation's founding, the concept of Arcadia was passing. "The fear of decline started to nag at the edges of the American consciousness," Hughes notes. The show ends by focusing on one of the artists who memorably reflected that fear, Thomas Cole. He created a five-painting cycle called The Course of Empire, which stood as a warning that America--so new, so strong and shiny--could nevertheless be swept away in one cataclysmic moment...
...problem continued to nag when the group met at the Lombardi Municipal Building last night...
Still, the questions nag even at voters reluctantly ready to opt for Clinton on Nov. 5: Who is it that they will be casting their ballots for? The government-must-do-more Democrat elected four years ago? Or the President Bob Dole has taunted as trying "to be a good Republican" in order to win re-election? Or will a second term reveal some yet-unseen Clinton, entering the first four-year period of his adult life in which he does not have to worry about the next election and free at last to do...what...
...clever twists we look for in a romantic farce. Yet in its bitterness and scorching profanity, it is miles from the lightheartedness of traditional farce. It's an unsteady, if engrossing, marriage of the light and bubbly and the down and dirty. One result is that its implausibilities nag us as they wouldn't in pure farce, where nobody asks that things stay plausible so long as they remain entertaining...
...pioneer Western. As Clyde and Bonnie travel, they move farther and farther from civilization and its attendant rules. In their travels they pick up C.W. Post (Michael J. Pollard), a gas station attendant, Clyde's brother-in-law, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), a nag and complainer who puts a damper on the group's free-wheeling fun. She is a constant reminder of the boredom and drudgery of the world that Bonnie and Clyde are trying to flee...