Word: surburbia
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BACKFIELD IN MOTION (ABC, Nov. 13, 9 p.m. EST). Roseanne and Tom Arnold, TV's terror couple, make a surprisingly appealing pair in this movie about a single mother who tackles male chauvinism in surburbia by organizing a mother-son football game...
Perhaps the best forum for flirting with such fantasies is TriBeCa's premier nightclub, Area. Every six weeks the club spends $60,000 and 300 man-hours revamping its interior to promote a new theme. Past themes have included "surburbia," "obelisks," and "passion," all of which entailed major structural changes, bizarre invitations, and display cases complete with live models acting out an aspect of the theme. On Halloween night a masked man attacked a hanging animal carcass with a chainsaw...
Most of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, however, is not so clearly defined. Joni Mitchell's despair and cynicism about surburbia, her alluding images, are too easily missed--the words trip over each other and get lost. She rarely succeeds at complementing lyrics with music. The bouncy conga rhythms are often too swift a vehicle for the words; and the synthesizer-chorale approach she takes to the more philosophical poems only makes them pretentious or droning...
...terms of the married students them selves, the housing situation frequently means cultural isolation from the Harvard community. For the husband, it means constant commuting without even an academic surburbia to anticipate after a day's work in Widener. For his wife, it often means bleak isolation from social and cultural activities of the University...
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