Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mendes' bleak vision of a suburban town, where little love passes between parents and children, and neighbors are suspicious and secretive towards each other is wonderfully and subtly presented. He envisions Americans as having cut themselves off from one another, isolated with their own cars, their own garbage disposals, and own lives, totally independent and disconnected. Windows are used not as views to the outside world but as voyeuristic peeks into others' lives. Cinematographer Conrad Hall furthers Mendes' vision with brilliant use of color, making the typical suburban home a mystical and, at times, beautiful setting...
...story of The Headless Bust involves a starchy recluse, Edmund Gravel, and a giant beetle, the Bahhumbug. The Christmas party they threw in The Haunted Tea-Cosy winds down, another insect takes them to a provincial town and introduces the two to some peculiar characters. Returning home, they celebrate the turn-of-the-millenium over tea. Unfortunately, all this transpires through gawky verse, with a few amusing couplets interspersed...
Coming from small-town Wisconsin, I have long lived on the assumption that I can strew cash about my room, prop the door open and still sleep soundly, knowing I am safe. In fact, that is exactly what my brother used to do back home. And let me tell you, it was great. Whenever I needed some extra change, I could just go borrow some from his carpet. (Of course, I always paid the carpet back...
Locks are never going to solve this crime rash--no, plague--this crime plague that is sweeping campus. We have to go to the heart of the problem. The heart of the problem is that here near Boston, we are not in small-town Wisconsin. So I have a recommendation for us all: Let's move the whole University to small-town Wisconsin. That way we can all sleep soundly, regardless of whether or not we take the time to lock our doors...
...most important piece of the 1992 Clinton campaign--and what may have secured his victory--was the "town meeting," a chance for real people to ask their screened, but still hard-hitting questions, about everything from the environment to the candidate's underwear. The town meeting made politics interesting again for a wider swath of America, and actually got some discussion of the issues in the process...