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Diane Russ of Evanston, Ill. never stays in the kitchen when the dishwasher is running. She wouldn't think of using power tools without wearing earplugs. And on weekends she keeps her windows closed. "Some mornings you can't walk outside because so many people are using their power mowers," she laments. "It's very noisy out there." Who would dispute it? From the roar of airplanes to the wail of sirens, the blast of stereos to the blare of movie sound tracks, noise is a constant part of American life. But few go to the lengths Russ does...
...never heard of it. The TV family members are portrayed so broadly that they go beyond parody into the realm of condescending camp. Mom offers everybody fudge and says "Oh, pooh!" when she gets upset. Dad smokes a pipe and thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen. The jokes are moronic: the '50s mom tries to use 1990s lingo with malaprop results ("My, don't you look squirrelly," she says, meaning "foxy"). And when the punkish '90s kid asks for a high five, his '50s counterpart, who wears a Boy Scout uniform, gives him $5. Oh, pooh...
...start? Here's the Looney Saloon, Anni's Turtle Tea Tree, the Jesus Camp, the Faerie Camp (from which, periodically, a conga line of guys in net stockings and bras erupts, followed by a very male little old lady in a granny dress, carrying a purse), the Contradiction Koffee Kitchen, the No Guns Tipi, the Positively Peaceful Anti- Natural Flatfood Forum (pancakes here), the Om Tea House and Pooh Corner (a latrine). Lovin' Ovens gives away bread, and Julie, Dianne and Danielle, from Quebec, help you choose a flower essence to improve your cellular vibrations...
...Krishna Camp feeds 3,000 people at a time from the best kitchen on the mountain. CALM, the Center for Alternative Living Medicine, soothes the wounded. Several middle-aged fellows from Massachusetts work for three days to get a rustic automatic dishwasher going: press a foot pedal, and out squirts warm water and bleach. For a tribe of peace-and-love anarchists with no structure and no leaders (their Council is anyone who shows up at the Main Circle), the Rainbows' disorganization is surprisingly effective...
...suffered all the indignities of segregation. He once told a judge in North Carolina he had eaten the same meal in the same restaurant where the judge had dined the night before -- with one difference. "You had yours in the dining room," said Marshall. "I had mine in the kitchen...