Word: squatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...furniture to buy, what shoes match his suit, and which dinette set best fits his non-existent personality. In this yuppie's life, IKEA is synonymous with orgasm. Enter Tyler Durden. Brad Pitt takes on the challenging role of this American psycho-- a soap salesman who lives as a squatter, steals a sportscar one day and ditches it the next, and takes random nightshift jobs to survive. Tyler wants "freedom" from yuppie existence and he makes it a point to obliterate any rules with which he comes in contact--he pees in customers' food, inserts frames of nudity into family...
...satire. It's supposed to be a biting mockery of yuppie angst. When Norton starts attending testicular cancer and TB support groups to release his anger and built-up anxiety, we laugh (albeit uncomfortably, but we laugh). When he meets Marla Singer (Helena Bonham Carter), a fellow support group squatter, and they divide group therapy sessions between them, we laugh. But when blood starts flying, Norton starts crying, and buildings start frying, we stop laughing. (It almost reminded me of Showgirls, the way the movie just loses its sense of tone halfway through...
...first act that, when she dons pearls and a stylish dress in the second act, except for a slightly more sophisticated and strict demeanor, she is basically the same. A major casting problem is Learned's physical appearance: she is not tall but instead rather shorter and squatter than both Seldes and Rouner. This takes away from the title and disturbs the continuity of the three in the second act. Still, Learned's performance is quite enjoyable, especially in the first act, in which she and Seldes play off of each other marvelously...
...Dior's A-line dress has swept Europe and the United States, charm bracelets are in and the precursor to the pill box hat Jackie Kennedy Onuses made so famous is smaller here and squatter. Manners reign supreme and the neuroses Arthur Miller wrote about are running rampant, but have not been made into pop psychology yet. It is the years when the stream-lined apple-green kitchens appealed to the June Cleaver housewife, fully equipped with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries...
...highly visible improvement. The problems are so enormous they cannot be eliminated in the short term, but almost any tangible effort will help. Most of the country's black citizens are without electricity or running water at home. Eight million live not in houses but in the squalor of squatter shacks. About 18 million black families earn less than $220 a month. Half the black population is illiterate and half its work force has no job. Development experts say the national economy must grow at 3.5% a year to make even a dent in joblessness; the growth rate this year...