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...Fulbright Fellowships. Many of her films are in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the world’s premier modern art museums. This year, she was appointed to a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute. She hopes to finish a planned trilogy on suburbia and the American dream, to continue writing, and to “create a multiple image installation” at Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard. “The Future Is Behind You” will be presented at the Coolidge Corner Theatre Movie House...
Most people think of Updike and Cheever as the masters of postwar American suburbia. Add Yates to the master list. His greatest novel is a bitterly funny account of lethal disappointment in the Connecticut suburbs in 1955. That may sound like a common enough predicament, but Yates gives it devastating force...
Today the Gush Katif bloc of settlements is a fortress under siege, a surreal mix of suburbia and security. The tight skein of roads in the area, restricted to Israelis, run through barren no-go zones where every tree and plant and dwelling has been bulldozed for a hundred yards. Thriving hothouses and comfortable red-roofed villas set in lush, green gardens spread across the dunes, huddling inside rings of razor wire and electric fence. Three-story military watchtowers draped in camouflage rear up out of back gardens, and tanks patrol the perimeters. The only Palestinians allowed within view...
Secrets in the burbs is a hoary theme, and Weeds begins unfortunately, with the suburbia-spoof folk classic Little Boxes ("... and they all look just the same") playing over the credits. Showtime likes to hammer viewers with its high concepts--The L Word, Fat Actress--and the note tied to this particular brick is, "This comedy will satirize the suburbs." But Weeds proves far more complex about Nancy and her neighbors. She's a criminal and a fiercely caring mom, a hypocrite with true morals. Even her superficial neighbor Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), who nicknames her chubby daughter "Isabelly," proves...
...comes with a CD of Crumb's recorded sessions with various amateur string and jug bands.) In a conversational style that frequently lapses into hilarious tirades against consumer culture, the media and any of a half dozen other peeves, Crumb reminisces about growing up as a child of 1950s suburbia through his later years as a museum-worthy "arteest" living in France. Always entertaining, "The R. Crumb Handbook" works as both an introduction to and enrichment of the author's work...