Word: cleaver
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Sorry, Mrs. Cleaver: dysfunctional families are "in" these days, and here to stay--at least as far as this fall's movie crop is concerned. Close on the heels of the high-powered but uneven A Thousand Acres, and preceding The House of Yes and the much-anticipated The Ice Storm, comes the The Myth of Fingerprints, the debut feature of writer/director Bart Freundlich...
...since June Cleaver has domesticity been so glorified or vilified. Her avid fans tape her shows and catalog the contents on index cards. On an unofficial Martha Website, they exchange information and offer to buy back issues at twice the newsstand price. And they declare their allegiance in open messages: "When she smiles, all is peace in the world," writes one. "Whoever says she's a conniving, evil, nasty, selfish materialistic witch is really, like me, envious, frustrated, totally enamored...
...boys' vices, we discovered, extended beyond mere slovenliness to include a seemingly unquenchable thirst for alcohol in any form. The kitchen, for example, was ill-equipped for preparing a typical meal--forks were in short supply, as were other utensils, with the exception of one disturbingly large meat cleaver, and we counted exactly four plates. But mugs and tumblers were tucked into every cabinet, along with a blender and even a funnel. In the basement, snap-shots were tacked on the walls featuring hordes of white-hatted students--presumably the boys--tossing back pitchers with their chums. The stereo system...
Several prominent alumnae will attend the reunion, including former Black Panther Kathleen N. Cleaver, who now works as a social activist, and author Gish Jen '77, who wrote the novel Typical American while a Bunting Fellow...
...landmark event. She is being heralded as the Jackie Robinson of the gay community. In fact, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has declared a national "Come out with Ellen" day built around the consequential episode. Even the mainstream news coverage has worn a revolutionary tone: "Roll over, Ward Cleaver," proclaimed one headline. One is almost convinced by the sheer weight of the collective media reaction that this event is important to our culture...