Word: suburbanity
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...politics of the other side is just as troublesome. Swing-vote suburban women heavily support stem-cell research. The public faces of the diseases that may benefit from the research are a p.r. dream. To name just three: Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore and Christopher Reeve...
...WORKS There is something realer than real in everyone's playing. You feel that their edgy suburban twaddling may be the way Hollywood heavies really behave in private. Some of the "actors' moments" linger too long, but a shadowy anger and misery underlie the sometimes choked-off wit of this free-form chamber piece shot on digital video. Everyone in the cast has his or her solo, and all rise brilliantly to their occasions, notably Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Beals, Mina Badie and a divinely neurotic Jane Adams...
...roll music of the sixties, abandoned pants on a sidewalk: anything uncoopted by the corporate American monoculture becomes an object of worship. They gripe about having no sex because all the boys are intolerably interested in sports or guitars and amuse themselves by obsessively following weirdoes around their homogenous, suburban neighborhood. But slowly the relationship becomes strained as Enid befriends Seymour (Steve Buscemi), a lonely collector of antique ephemera, and Rebecca yearns to put her life in some sort of direction...
...certain neurological perspective?even if they aren't 'shrooming themselves, they are channeling the subculture. The lucky ones might have their pictures snapped by a roving photographer for a magazine like Fruits or Kera, two youthful publications that document Tokyo street fashion with uncompromising detail for a suburban readership hungry for news about the antics of Tokyo's crazy in-crowd...
...well-tended flower beds but the meadow that generated the most excitement. "Many of the women just stood in the middle of it," she recalls. A visitor said she was envious of the unfettered habitat but admitted that she doubted her neighbors would allow it. Suburban homogeneity, it seems, can be harder than lawns to uproot...