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...original Morris Mini was the automotive mouse that roared its way through 1960s Britain, driven by Beatles John and Paul and bought by more fans than any car since the Ford Model T. It was barely 4 ft. high and 10 ft. long; American lovers of the Cadillac and Suburban never really got it. But now we're getting a second chance...
...There's little chance that poverty will ever be erased in India; 1 billion people are never going to live in the suburban ease of Japan. And religious violence always seems on the verge of flaring up, reminding us that India's swarming freedoms exact a cost. But at a time when Japan seems to be losing pace, India seems to be catching up with it. My car stopped one day at a red light-RELAX, I read on the traffic light-and a little boy came up to me waving a copy of the Ikea 2001 catalog...
...more decisive than Jessica. The design for living they develop can hardly be called a romp. It is, instead, an edgy exploration of role playing and sexual choice in a climate where all options are acceptable--even to Jessica's mom, who is not as traditionally suburban and Jewish as she first seems. Written by its two leading actresses and alertly, discreetly directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, the movie avoids commitment to either a gay or straight agenda. Each woman is allowed to act on the logic of her most basic sexual impulses. What they gain from their experience...
...Charlie White’s photograph “Friday Night,” a tanned, blond housewife in a dowdy, powder blue night gown, aggressively kneads a raw shank of meat into the pristinely white carpet of her suburban home. Her furrowed brow, clenched teeth, and planted thighs represent a hostile determination. In an opening night lecture, Charlie White suggested that this woman is pounding a part of herself into the floor...
...drew huge box-office revenues but are of questionable artistic merit. Even recent winners with significantly smaller budgets are hardly art-house flicks. Shakespeare In Love is little more than a sappy romance comedy in period costume, and American Beauty is a jarring but hardly-subtle expression of bourgeoisie suburban angst. Considering this history, it’s no surprise that a brilliant but complicated film like Memento isn’t even nominated for Best Picture...