Word: suburbanization
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Dark-horse candidates don't come much darker than Stanislaw Tyminski, the runner-up in Poland's presidential election last week. One of the few things voters know about him for sure is that he doesn't live in Poland. He makes his home in suburban Toronto, where he owns a computer company and heads the minuscule Libertarian Party of Canada. He won't even promise to move back to Poland if he wins this Sunday's runoff election. He does say he can lift his native land out of its present economic mess. He just...
...friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family. And how pleased Edward is to be a guest of this brood -- especially since it includes teenage Kim (Winona Ryder), to < whom Edward will give his love as soon as he stops giving her the creeps...
...wounded expression of someone who has just been slapped out of a deep sleep, brings a wondrous dignity and discipline to Edward. Wiest does a delightful turn on the plucky, loving mothers from old sitcoms. The whole movie, in fact, time-travels between today and the '50s, when every suburban house could be a quiet riot of coordinated pastels. But the film exists out of time -- out of the present cramped time, certainly -- in the any-year of a child's imagination. That child could be the little girl to whom the grandmotherly Ryder tells Edward's story nearly...
...with its role in providing abortions. UHS only refers students to clinics; no actual abortions are performed. Instead, the University attempts to shift the venue and the accountability--in an effort to avoid the shame of operating such a sleazy enterprise--by sending the women of Harvard to subtle suburban abortion dens But the blame for these acts cannot be transferred because the students are going to UHS for help and instead they are being referred to modern-day butchers who practice our contemporary genocide...
...second act, Billy and Teddy proceed to disrupt the quiet veneer of domestic complacency which characterizes Billy's suburban existence. They do so slowly, artfully--skeletons emerge from the closet of each character in the first act, preparing the audience for Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second act. Rodriguez turns a brilliant performance as Billy's friend from the asylum, whose mercurial energy and neurotic intensity combine with keen wit and perception. As Billy's lawyer in this card-game-turned-trial, Teddy embodies the insanity of the everyday as much as he exposes...