Word: suburbia
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Photojournalism was at war with itself over its essence. Studies of the battlefield were replaced by reflections on life-style: the camera discovered suburbia. In the view of dissidents like Smith, however, news photography had vitiated itself through overproduction. Continuous wire-service transmission and the conservatism of the postwar picture press had covered the world with images leached of their expressiveness and meaning. As Smith put it, "we are deluged with photography at its worst -- until the drone of superficiality threatens to numb our sensitivity to image...
Eric Bogosian follows his acclaimed performance of Sex. Drugs. Rock & Roll with more of the same this weekend as part of the American Repertory Theater's fall theater festival. Currently in residence at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theater Training. Bogosian is working to develop his new play. Suburbia, a satiric look at American mentalities. More Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll will be incorporated into a off-Broadway show later this fall...
...book is full of such leaps from the cosmos to suburbia and back again. Watterson's watercolor treatment of Calvin's alternate realities is striking in the Sunday comics sections of America, but, unfortunately, Yukon Ho! has no color. Instead of a blue insect head, we get a shade of grey. Instead of a rainbow of colored clothes pouncing on Calvin one morning, we see a few black and white objects flying at him. The strips are still funny, but they lose much of their artistry. No comic strip in the last 20 years has used color so well...
...democracy is ! all about!" Hold on, Sam. Mixing sewage and wildlife, then bragging about it in the name of democracy, doesn't sound like common sense. But Arcata (pop. 14,600), a timber and fishing town in Northern California populated by a curious mix of rural curmudgeons, refugees from suburbia, and college students, often thinks differently about things. Pennisi and his companions, Humboldt State University professor George Allen and HSU environmental engineer Robert Gearheart, are showing off an environmental vision they and others championed for more than a decade: a wildlife habitat and public park that help dispose...
...genteel patrons? Bob Balaban's recent comedy Parents, a kind of robin's-egg Blue Velvet, limned a '50s family, as placid and telegenic as the Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only...