Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind the comfortable listening, the lyrics satirize suburban domesticity, grope tiredly for utopia and present existential dilemnas without the Sartreian seriousness...
...wouldn't it be nice if the science-fantasy genre, recently festooned with cotton-candy aliens and the air of suburban benevolence, could be refreshed by making contact with the laws of dramatic gravity? As it happens, Cocoon has many familiar elements: it could be called E.T. Meets the Over-the-Hill Gang, or On Golden Pod. Like last Christmas' Starman, it contains a love story ^ between an extraterrestrial (Tahnee Welch, Raquel's lithe and stunning daughter) and a young American (Steve Guttenberg); here sex is represented as a love-light that ricochets around the swimming pool. Like...
Fischl country is a place of shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched...
...fire fighter described the scene as "Dantesque." The term was an apt one for the inferno that engulfed 410 patients in a six-story mental hospital in suburban Buenos Aires late last week. Said one witness: "Some patients leaped out of the windows, and we could hear them screaming. You could hear explosions as windows shattered." As choking, disoriented inmates fled into the streets, a nurse, wrapped in a mattress cover, reportedly jumped to her death from the top of the building. Federal police sources put the death toll at 79, but it could go higher. It was estimated that...
...Revolving Block Party Award goes to North House. Each week the scene of the Friday afternoon revelry shifts from the Master's residence to one of the three brick dorms. Noho's Weathered Suburban architecture and the itinerant character of the event contributes to a cocktail party atmosphere. This reporter paid a visit when the run wound up at the Master's residence. Plenty of food, not too crowded, lots of chairs to sit down on. Just follow the signs to the site of the part...