Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weird-sort-of-pastoral. Allnut and Rose fall in love early in the film and spend most of it being sentimental and affectionate. Allnut shaves, his coarseness quite obliterated by romance, and Rose's up-tightness vanishes after the first clinch; the boat becomes a house in suburbia and Allnut views the tropical wilderness as a New England landscape, saying, "I'd like to come back 'ere some day." Increasingly, they address each other in blissful euphemisms: 'Dear, what's your first name?" asks Allnut, later calling her Rosie and "sweet-heart" with a devotion approaching mania...
Dance has also arrived in suburbia, where leotards and toe shoes are beginning to replace the piano as a culture symbol. Manhattan has 70 dance schools, greater Washington, D.C., has 60. Says one Manhattan teacher, surveying the proliferating schools: "They're like bookies -there's one in every basement." Each September, when Balanchine's School of American Ballet holds auditions, the line of hopefuls stretches around the block. The few who are accepted are properly proud and even a little haughty. Says Nanette Glushak, 17, of Manhattan: "We saw a movie of Pav lova the other...
Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) returns home a college graduate without plans for the future; he spends a few weeks stifling in suburbia, then begins an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), the wife of his father's business partner. Forced by his parents to date the Robinson daughter Elaine (Katherine Ross) in deference to social amenities, Benjamin initially antagonizes the girl as per Mrs. Robinson's instructions, then falls in love with...
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is Edward Albee's version of the wicked world of U.S. suburbia. When the little woman (Barbara Bel Geddes) finds she needs more money, she goes to work on the side as a, well, you know, a lady of pleasure. Hubby (Barry Nelson) adjusts quickly when he finds out all the girls at the country club are doing...
EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN. Edward Albee transfers a bleak comedy by the late Giles Cooper from England to U.S. suburbia. Barry Nelson and Barbara Bel Geddes play a couple who can't make ends meet until she finds a career in the world's oldest profession...