Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan is essentially a compromise between city residents unwilling to see money spent solely for suburbia and suburbanites cool to helping foot the bill for city urban renewal. It will take 20 years to complete, and the price tag will be $1 billion in public and private funds for each paired town. But Dr. Hubert Locke, the project's director and an associate at the Urban Studies Center at Wayne State University, thinks the plan is worth the money...
...second half of the film undermines all that precedes it. When we first saw the characters, they were apparitions floating up from suburbia. There was a beautiful, almost hallucinatory, effect in those early facial close-ups against a blank background. But once past histories and individual psychologies are filled in, the dreamlike quality vanishes. As the film becomes more "rational" and defined, it becomes less moving...
What makes Joe Didman's plight so relevant is that he finally recognizes his own historical irrelevance. Didman's liberal conscience originally made him an outcast among fellow Yale graduates who, in the Silent '50s, sought the maximum security of suburbia while Didman chose a deteriorating New York City, hoping to forward his progressive ideas through publishing. Instead, he finds himself powerless to prevent Government agencies from using his publishing house as a propaganda mill...
Troubled by New York City's prices and pressures, 14 major corporations have moved their office headquarters to nearby suburbs in the past three years. At least ten other companies have announced plans to follow suit. But suburbia is not delighted. Many local governments doubt that increased tax revenues will offset the cost of more schools, police, fire protection and sewage treatment. Residents fear that the whole idea of suburban living may be threatened. As a result, the companies try to soften the impact of their arrival. Two that have succeeded are PepsiCo Inc. and American...
Loving. Set in John Cheever country-the wealthy suburbia of Fairfield County, Connecticut-this American film presents the dilemma of a financially insecure commercial artist unable to come to terms with either his wife or his mistress. Irvin Kershner, who directed from a screenplay by Don Devlin, has a terrific fell for the sterility of his settings and the dogged humanity of his characters. Even when being funny, the movie is underlined by that dim light we associate with the pain of three o'clock in the morning. The picture also has a brilliant climax involving closed-circuit television...