Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symbiotic linking of the center city with new towns in the suburbs. The plan, which was developed by the Metropolitan Fund of Detroit, a nonprofit research corporation in Southeast Michigan working with a $100,000 appropriation, envisions the pairing off of nine redeveloped inner-city areas with ten undeveloped suburban locations. Though each pair of sites would be geographically separate, from 20 to 40 miles apart, they would exist as political, social and economic entities. The pairs would be connected by mass transit lines and bus services; housing would be built in both places to attract various income levels...
...city locations would range from 635 to 2,000 acres, accommodate 25,000 people and strive for the kind of cosmopolitan atmosphere that once made the city an attraction for middle-class whites. The suburban sites, covering between 3,600 and 8,000 acres, would house 75,000 people, with generous green space and good low-rent housing...
...funeral of a close friend, Gus (Cassavetes), Harry (Ben Gazarra), and Archie (Peter Falk)-the best of country club buddies-suddenly feel death crawling under their neatly suburban tuxedos. And after the service, they find themselves unable to go home because home is where every day reminds you that you're not the professional basketball player you meant to grow up to be. So they set off on a monumental weekend drunk that runs from barroom to men's room, from basketball court to swimming pool. And then Monday morning it starts out as back to work and home...
That night, a great full moon flooded the federal city, bringing with it a sense of calm and beauty that has hardly been noticed in a decade. In the gilded salons of Georgetown, in the musty hideaways of the Capitol, in the big, comfortable homes of suburban Chevy Chase, they talk about what is not happening in this land: the absence of campus upheaval and ghetto terror. There is agreement only about the national calm...
...Director George Schaefer let audiences know they are not quite serious. The story concerns itself with the sordid vagaries of a small group of California physicians and their spouses. The husbands have their mistresses, the wives their lovers, and both share a set of suburban hangups that would stagger the late Grace Metalious. The game of musical beds ends when one of the doctors finds his wife (Dyan Cannon) in bed with a colleague (George Gaynes). With somewhat more glee than is usual on such occasions, he shoots them both with a single bullet. The ensuing scandal threatens the philandering...