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...filled with her kava-swigging, tree-chainsawing, pig-slaughtering grandchildren, who surf a volcano of emotions over one night and a day. It's all part of the shifting nature of New Zealand film. As Nanna Maria (Ruby Dee) says of the Fijian feast taking shape outside her suburban window, "Look at all that life...
Murphy's fund raising initially put Gerlach atop the list of endangered G.O.P. incumbents. But he has bounced back, attacking Murphy as too liberal and demonstrating the power of suburban issues, campaigning on a platform of preserving open spaces and lower taxes...
...Margaret was the image of suburban chic in her short-sleeved blouses, her slim waist cinched by a kitchen apron, her pretty face set in a near-permanent smile. As each episode?s plot played out, she would be baking cookies or measuring the living-room couch for new slip covers, assuring that the mother ship was shipshape. In a show that ventured infrequently into Jim?s office or the kids? school, where the home was the essential set, Margaret - the only Anderson without a nickname - was also the only one whose daily business didn?t take her away from...
Pictures of drought-stricken land, higher temperatures, water restrictions and dying suburban gardens have become part of the voter's psyche. Even a global-warming skeptic like Howard can read the shift in the electorate's fears; he and his intimates have adjusted their thinking and public words. With an election expected next year, Howard's team are devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks...
...times as a symbol of the failure of family life in “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” As such a motif suggests, the first Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) Mainstage show of the year does not shirk from conflict in its portrayal of suburban life. Running until Oct. 28, “Bette and Boo” was written by Christopher F. Durang ’71. Produced by Aileen K. Robinson ’08, the play is directed by Visiting Director Marcus Stern, who staged the play several years earlier...