Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge Deputy Director of Community Development Mary Flynn outlined goals in five areas of planning: environment and open space, transportation, housing, economic development and urban design...
...create an image and an ideology of ourselves as heroic expanders of the frontier and innocents who fight evil," she says. "All of that cold war fervor that drove the old westerns has lifted, so you can do more complex and interesting westerns." At a time when gritty urban realism and literal-minded docudramas hold sway, westerns are a refreshing departure. They provide escape, but also a chance to confront issues of universal significance and spiritual weight: a history lesson, but also a reminder of the imaginative power of myth and allegory. All that and a lot of pretty scenery...
...epic vision of the urban nightmare...
...resistant to willful ignorance when placed on the stage in a play as eerily uninflected as Howard Korder's The Lights and a production as epic and energized as Mark Wing-Davy's at New York City's Lincoln Center. Without preaching, without invective, without in any way distorting urban life, The Lights makes one ashamed to dwell in a city and absorb its brutish selfishness...
...sentimental false notes, he is painfully apt about the way we live now. But his play is set timelessly in "the modern era." Marina Draghici's set reinforces this reach for the enduring: its Art Deco windows and wire fences, beer gardens and back alleys evoke the urban sense of living with the decaying legacy of the past...