Word: suburbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life experience. Its cool glow is so infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer-peeler-grater...
...tradition of director Richard Linklater's so-ridiculous-that-you-have-to-laugh movies (Dazed and Confused, SubUrbia), The Newton Boys robs money not just from banks, but from moviegoers. Set in the bootlegging world of the 1920s, the Newton Boys (Matthew McConaughey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ethan Hawke and Skeet Ulrich) are America's most successful bank robbers, and are portrayed as sweet, Southern-drawling teenage heartthrobs. Making a mockery out of the real event, this film persuades moviegoers to fall in love with all those chiseled faces and to forget the fact that their success was made in robbery...
...Revisit suburbia. Find a friend with a car and go get Slurpees at 7-11, french fries from McDonald's and pancakes at the International House of Pancakes (IHOP). Take pictures for your dorm room wall...
...fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air--some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries, another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships to make room for later-arriving choppers. For many Americans, it was like...
...this age of limits was still in some respects an age of exploration. The '70s were when the '60s hit home. Head shops came to suburbia. Mom took yoga. And there were days when all the world was Oh! Calcutta! As experiments do, some ended in disaster, some in the cheesy solipsisms of the Me decade. All the same, by the simple pressure of new possibilities, lives were refashioned, and not just into life-styles. Women, gays, blacks all decided to take seriously that stuff about the pursuit of happiness. Every week, when Mary Tyler Moore threw her hat into...