Word: stepfordized
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...vibes of the hippies. The entire dark side of '60s is on display: chaos and mindless anarchy have rushed into the void cleared by the vague promise of freedom. The audiences seen here are the dark doppelgangers of Woodstock. Every face looks programmed and every movement emotionless, like a Stepford Wives vision of the hippiedom. Along with the Charles Manson bloodbath four months earlier, Altamont revealed the antipode of Woodstock's blissed-out flower children-the negative space on the other side of the spaces of freedom that the '60s opened...
Imagine that the Stepford Wives had acquired Stepford Husbands and produced a Stepford Baby...
...clue." Kerrey, a lighter, funnier, and infinitely more authentic man than Gore - and a war hero, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam - would bring a certain connectedness and humanity to the ticket, and would serve as a foil to distract attention from Gore's Stepford quality. The two could even play it for endearingly comic effect...
...shapes and sizes can be regarded as sexy and beautiful. Where big women share space on billboards next to waifs and we embrace a progressive pansexuality. With advances in genetic engineering and antidepressants, maybe we'll all look and feel exactly the same. Wouldn't that be great? The Stepford Planet...
This Pleasantville, this Bedford Falls, this Brigadoon, this Springfield, you see, is really Stepford--a place so sanitized there are no toilets or double beds, a people so insular they have never known what it's like to feel unprogrammed joy or lust or rage or bravery or intellectual adventure. When they finally open themselves to these emotions (by gazing at a Picasso or hearing Buddy Holly or spending the evening with a naughty girl from the '90s), the people of Pleasantville literally blush into color. They wear their passion on their shamed, fervent faces, on their clothes, like...