Word: suburbanitis
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...contrast, shows an almost infinite grid of houses and streets punctuated by a large, verdant oasis that rises above the flat expanse of development. Together, the photographs draw attention to the disheartening reality that the environment within the land preserve—now viewed as a rarity amidst suburban sprawl—once constituted the entire landscape. What is so effective about these and MacLean’s other images is that they display an action and its consequences from the distance of a plane and a camera lens—just far enough to encompass a vision that...
This fall a lot of Winslet, 31, is on show in a lot of places. Having weathered--that is, not been blamed for--All the King's Men, and done a serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British...
...Heartless Stone, I traveled in 2004 and '05 to Africa, where diamonds are mined in conditions that range from the orderly to the horrific, and found virtually no oversight of the violence-prone alluvial-mining sites. Many stones have made their way out of the jungle and into suburban malls via somebody's lower intestinal tract. Even when the diamonds are not smuggled or traded for guns, the wages for the miners can be outrageously unfair. I met a team of diggers in the Central African Republic who were routinely paid $200 for large-carat diamonds that would easily retail...
...merely irritable, and one can hardly blame Howie for wanting to stay out of the house.James Noone’s set, a slide-show of rooms sliding (creakily) in and out of the frame of the house, is a bright spot of the evening, transitioning inventively from perfect suburban kitchen to perfect suburban living room to the child’s heart-breakingly adorable bedroom. A great set is lovely, but it cannot make up for an otherwise lame evening. If you have a ticket already, seeing the Huntington’s “Rabbit Hole” won?...
...Growing up in suburban Illinois, Roy never intended to become a nun. Marriage was the plan even when she got involved at the Newman Center, the Catholic student center in college. But that changed in 2002 when she was earning her masters degree in social work at the University of Illinois. "I started thinking about religious life one day and the more I thought about it, the more I saw myself actually doing it," Roy says...