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...long ago, that amount of money went a long way towards the down payment on a new house in American suburbia. Next year, it will be the price tag for a year as an undergraduate at Harvard-Radcliffe--minus transportation, expenses and fees...
...like rebuses or allegories, swarming with references to movies and their auteurs. Peter Frank, the Guggenheim's guest curator, who has a marked taste for indirect and elliptical art, has also included an interesting painter from New Orleans, Jim Richard, 37. Richard's deadpan views of Southern suburbia do not justify Frank's claim that they possess "the most astoundingly lambent light this side of a Caspar David Friedrich sunset." That must be the most astoundingly nutty thing written by a talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird...
Since Dallas, Lorimar has launched three more sexy serials, and two of them are paying off. Knots Landing, which spun the Ewings' gray-sheep brother Gary off into the moral thickets of California suburbia, has frequently won its time slot since it debuted in December 1979. A newer entry. Flamingo Road, is putting lurid new life into NBC's chronically tired blood. Lorimar's Secrets of Midland Heights, an updated Peyton Place with the handsomest cast on TV, seemed to be finding its narrative stride before CBS canceled it last month for low ratings...
Shawn laments the magazine's current scarcity of humor and fiction, which he sees as symptomatic of the times: "The problem is to find enough that fits our standards." Fiction can range widely from I.B. Singer's shtetl in Poland to the adulterous suburbia of John Cheever. But there is a recognizable New Yorker kind of story. It usually involves a middle-class woman who registers a sad little recognition after some incident in which not very much happened...
Somehow, as mass murderers go, Ted Bundy seemed a killer easy to identify with. Bundy, the brutal murderer of as many as 36 young women in four states--Washington, Colorado, Utah, and Florida--was a homicidal sociopath for upwardly mobile suburbia. He killed nice girls, girls next door, and did it in the suburbs and sleepy college hollows of the country. He had such style--he held down two careers...