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...group of bushwalkers stands on a ridge overlooking the dense bush into which Caley and his men descended. Of the 62 km Caley traveled to reach the Carmarthen Hills, as a section of the range was then known, less than a third has been swallowed by farming and suburbia; most of it today lies in the Grose Wilderness - an area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this...
...brand-new Top 10 dramas--both textbook examples of what viewers in the CSI era supposedly don't want to watch. Lost, an X-Files-like supernatural chiller about plane-crash survivors on a spooky island, and Desperate Housewives, a soap about lust and secrets in upscale suburbia, are stories with complicated serial plots that viewers have to follow closely. And they're following gladly...
...recently released by the Bush campaign is set somewhere in suburbia, featuring a mother jogging with a stroller and a father with his minivan; the voiceover, which sounds like it’s straight out of a scary movie, drones “History’s lesson: Strength builds peace. Weakness invites those who would do us harm.” Mixing images of Middle America with threats of imminent terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected—on account of his enigmatic “weakness”—is a detestable ploy to get voters...
Housewives is already a critics' darling for its mordant humor and terrific cast. But it trades on a dated image of ticky-tacky suburbia that Hollywood has been spoofing for decades. (One character makes a batch of ambrosia, the marshmallow-studded salad that is as au courant in today's upscale 'burbs as a beehive hairdo.) And there's something smug and icky about a bunch of TV professionals essentially implying that if their female suburban viewers only realized how empty their Susie Homemaker existences were, they would blow their brains...
...Eightball" #23 (Fantagraphics Books; 40 pages; $7), continues Clowes' ever more remarkable maturation as an artist with the single-issue story, "The Death Ray." Two years ago, "Eightball" #22 gave us an Altman-esque fractured look at the strange residents of suburbia (see TIME.comix review). Like its predecessor, number 23 is divided into multiple vignettes, but this time it focuses exclusively on the life of one character. Clowes takes the traditional superhero motifs - extraordinary powers, special gadgets, the sidekick, and the origin story - but eliminates the "super" and the "hero." Instead we get Andy, AKA The Death Ray, a drip...